Newland
Major Settlement in the Parish of Normanton
Historical Forms
- Noua terra 1240–50 Bodl101
- Neuland 1357 YDi
- New(e)land(e) 1547 FF 1577 Holinshed 1638 SessnR
Etymology
'Land newly reclaimed from waste', v. nīwe , land . As with Newland pt. iv infra , the wasteland was low-lying ground along the river. There are many references in WCR to the reclaiming of the lord's waste in the late thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Birkwood Fm
- Wood Nook
- Ashfield
- Beck Bridge
- Chapel Row
- Dodsworth Hill
- The Garth
- Hall Croft
- Havertop Lane
- Haw Hill
- Hopetown
- Normanton Common
- Normanton Whin
- The Orchard
- Snydale Hall
- Whinny Lane
- Calverley Green
- Choke Churl Bridge
- Clay Pit
- Crowcroft Ho
- Ellentrees
- Foxholes Bight
- High Green Rd
- Lee Brigg
- Low Common
- Low Ho
- Ashgap Lane
- Birdhouse Cottages
- Town's Well
- Altofts Ings
- Pen Bank
- Newland Hall
- Newland Park
- St John's Fields
- Woodhouse Moor
- Ashfield Beck
- Streethouse
- Altofts Hall
- Ruddings Wood
- Wain Dike Beck
- Butcher's Gap Lane
- Church Lane
- Mill Hill, Mill Houses
- Mill Lane