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
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Altofts Hall
- Altofts Ings
- Birkwood Fm
- Calverley Green
- Choke Churl Bridge
- Clay Pit
- Crowcroft Ho
- Ellentrees
- Foxholes Bight
- High Green Rd
- Lee Brigg
- Low Common
- Low Ho
- Pen Bank
- Ruddings Wood
- Wood Nook
- Newland Hall
- Newland Park
- St John's Fields
- Woodhouse Moor
- Ashfield
- Ashfield Beck
- Ashgap Lane
- Beck Bridge
- Chapel Row
- Dodsworth Hill
- The Garth
- Hall Croft
- Havertop Lane
- Haw Hill
- Hopetown
- Normanton Common
- Normanton Whin
- The Orchard
- Wain Dike Beck
- Birdhouse Cottages
- Butcher's Gap Lane
- Church Lane
- Mill Hill, Mill Houses
- Mill Lane
- Snydale Hall
- Streethouse
- Town's Well
- Whinny Lane