| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 53.8225°N -0.1797°W |
| Label Position: | left |
| Official Name: | West Newton |
| Static Image: | West Newton.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Houses in West Newton |
| Civil Parish: | Burton Constable |
| Unitary England: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Lieutenancy England: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Constituency Westminster: | Beverley and Holderness |
| Post Town: | HULL |
| Postcode District: | HU11 |
| Postcode Area: | HU |
| Dial Code: | 01964 |
| Os Grid Reference: | TA199377 |
West Newton is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 9miles north-east of Hull city centre[1] and 6miles south of Hornsea. In 1935, both the townships of Marton and West Newton were merged into the civil parish of Burton Constable.[2]
In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Newton like this:
NEWTON (West), a township, with a village, in Aldbrough parish, E. R. Yorkshire; miles N E of Hull. Acres, 778. Real property, £3, 218. Pop., 220. Houses, 30. An hospital was founded here, prior to 1179, by William Earl of Albemarle.[3]
The area around West Newton has been the site of test drilling for gas and oil. In 2014, people complained that noxious fumes were being emitted from a site near to the village and the smell was making them sick.[4] In June 2019, the company testing for gas announced that preliminary data from the borehole suggested that there was an accessible resource of of gas, or 31 million barrels of oil from a borehole that extended over 2000m (7,000feet).[5]
If the assessment is correct, it would be the biggest onshore gas and oilfield in the United Kingdom. Previously this was the Saltfleetby field in Lincolnshire discovered in 1973 with a capacity of of gas.[6]