EAST NEWTON with LAYSTHORPE is a township, 3 miles north-west from Hovingham station and 4 south from Helmsley. The old hall here, for many generations the seat of the Thornton and Comber families, is now a farmhouse; leading from the basement of the hall is an underground passage, at present bricked up, at a point about twelve yards from the entrance. The trustees of the late William Prank esq. of Helmsley, are lords of the manor and landowners in Laysthorpe. The soil is limestone and clay, with subsoils of limestone, rock and gravel. The principal crops raised are wheat, barley and oats. The acreage is 934 of land and 7 of water; rateable value, £925; the population in 1911 was 42.

Laysthorpe, or Laythorpe, is 1 ½ miles north-west.