Newsham Village - a brief history.

Newsham is a village of stone built houses in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, straddling two ecclesiastical parishes, that of Kirby Hill and Barningham.
It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Neuhuson
Most of the houses are around the village green. The road from the old roman road, the A66, runs alongside the green up onto Barningham Moor. Close to the crossroads leading to Richmond stands the market cross, indicating a market which flourished in Tudor and Stuart times, also the metal shackles which replaced the wooden stocks in 1828.
There are three commemorative trees on the green, the sycamore for Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1897 was planted by Prince and Princess Radziwill. The war memorial for the 1914--18 & 1939-45 wars is also there.
Earby Hall was one of the three “London” schools in the village, functioning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Newsham Place has a date of 1666; this school was run by James Coates in 1784. Newsham Hall was the third.
The water mill will probably have early beginnings, there is a lintel dated 1540. It was more recently used as a provender merchants. The overshot mill wheel was restored in 1987. Direct current electricity from the mill, used to charge wet batteries during the 1930’s and 40’s, was supplied to Victoria House, then occupied by a Cycle repair and Radio dealer.
There was a mission hut, as well as the Non-conformist Chapel, which is now a house.
Broughton House was the residence of the local surgeon in the 1870’s, and his surgeon son lived opposite. There was a doctors’ practice in the village until the 1960’s.
The Pound, for stray animals, was at the eastern end of the village, now the site of Hare’s Close.
Land on which the village hall stands was given to the local branch of the Women’s Institute about 1953.
Two charities are extant: (1) The Bull land – the person who rented these fields, free of charge, had to supply the parish bull for cows owned by the cow keepers.
Three quarries on Barningham and Newsham Moors, and the fields are still leased out. Money received is used for the benefit of the village.
(2) The John Daykin Trust, which, from rented out land and property gives grants to local children for their further education.