Newton Wallis: The Evolution of a Landscape

Abstract

Newton Wallis was a small medieval settlement on the north bank of the river Aire in the parish of Ledsham, which may have become deserted from the fourteenth century and was never more than a hamlet until the early nineteenth century when coal mining transformed the settlement. With the ending of mining in the mid-twentieth century the houses were demolished and the site became part of a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest known as Fairburn Ings.