Place:East Newton and Laysthorp, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

East Newton and Laysthorpe is now a civil parish and a small village in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"NEWTON (East) and LAYSTHORP, a township in Stonegrave parish, [North Riding of] Yorkshire; on the river Rye, 3½ miles S E by S of Helmsley. Acres: 902. Real property: £1,204. Population: 84. Houses: 16."

Further descriptions from gazetteers circa 1820:

• "EAST NEWTON, in the parish of Stonegrave, wapentake of Rydale, and liberty of St. Peter's; 1¼ miles SW. of Stonegrave, 4 miles SSE. of Helmsley. Pop. including Laysthorpe, 72."
• ""LEYSTHORPE, a farm house in the township of East-Newton, and parish of Stonegrave; 1¼ miles WNW. of Stonegrave, 4 miles south of Helmsley, 7 from Kirbymoorside."

Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, East Newton and Laysthorp was part of Helmsley Rural District. Historically, the township was located in the ancient and ecclesiastical parish of Stonegrave in the Rydale Wapentake.