NEWTON-UPON-DERWENT is a township and village in the parish of Wilberfoss, on the eastern acclivity of the vale of the navigable river Derwent, 6 miles west from Pocklington. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The poor of this township have 3s. 4d. arising from Wood’s charity. The poor’s land comprises 9a. 0r. 16p. part of which was purchased with £40, left by John Horsley, in 1719, and the rest, with the church land in Wilberfoss, was allotted at the Inclosure in 1766. Lord Leconfield, who is lord of the manor, and David Haig esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is mixed, chiefly light, but strong in parts; subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and potatoes. The area is 1,711 acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £2,089; the population in 1911 was 204.