West Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire
# West Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire

West Newton is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Hull city centre and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Hornsea. In 1935, both the townships of Marton and West Newton were merged into the civil parish of Burton Constable.

## History

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Newton like this:

NEWTON (West), a township, with a village, in Aldbrough parish, E. R. Yorkshire; miles N E of Hull. Acres, 778. Real property, £3, 218. Pop., 220. Houses, 30. An hospital was founded here, prior to 1179, by William Earl of Albemarle.

## Natural resources

The area around West Newton has been the site of test drilling for gas and oil. In 2014, people complained that noxious fumes were being emitted from a site near to the village and the smell was making them sick. In June 2019, the company testing for gas announced that preliminary data from the borehole suggested that there was an accessible resource of 189,000,000,000 cubic metres $(6.7×10^{12}$ cu ft) of gas, or 31 million barrels of oil from a borehole that extended over 6,562 feet (2,000 m).

If the assessment is correct, it would be the biggest onshore gas and oilfield in the United Kingdom. Previously this was the Saltfleetby field in Lincolnshire discovered in 1973 with a capacity of 73,000,000,000 cubic metres $(2.6×10^{12}$ cu ft) of gas.

