Search for a place
Search for a place
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Newby Wiske like this:
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.
Newby Wiske is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Newby Wiske itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Newby Wiske, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13800
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
Click here for more detailed advice on finding places within A Vision of Britain through Time, and maybe some references to other places called "Newby Wiske".
