West Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire

In 1935, both the townships of Marton and West Newton were merged into the civil parish of Burton Constable.[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 189,000,000,000 cubic metres (6.7×1012 cu ft) of gas, or 31 million barrels of oil from a borehole that extended over 6,562 feet (2,000 m).Previously this was the Saltfleetby field in Lincolnshire discovered in 1973 with a capacity of 73,000,000,000 cubic metres (2.6×1012 cu ft) of gas.
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