NEWBY-WISKE, a township in Kirby-Wiske parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Wiske, and on the Melmerby and Northallerton branch of the North eastern railway, 4 miles S by W of Northallerton. It has a station on the railway, a post-office under Thirsk, a five-arched bridge over the river Wiske, a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school. Acres, 1, 395. Real property, £1, 528. Pop., 223. Houses, 50. Newby-Wiske Park belonged to the Reveleys, and passed to the Mitfords.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))