| More information : The grange of Newton with four carucates of lands, meadows, woods, pastures, common etc., was granted to Rievaulx Abbey by William the son of Robert de Sproxton. Permission for a watercourse to supply the grange was given by a Robert de Sproxton. In 1471, the grange, then known as West Newton, was assigned to John, Lord Scrope of Bolton, and at the Dissolution it passed to Thomas, Earl of Rutland (1). Platt locates this site at Grange Farm (SE 68 SW 22), but McDonnell considers that the evidence of the watercourse, White Beck, establishes West Newton Grange (SE 630800) as being at least the site of the stock farm of the monastic grange, it being possible that the monks had two sets of buildings. Alternatively the grange could have been divided into farms when leased before the Dissolution. (1-3) |