Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOLLAND (NEW)

HOLLAND (NEW), a sea port village in Barrow-uponHumber parish, Lincoln; on the river Humber, and on.he Grimsby and Sheffield Junction railway, opposite Hull, 4 miles E by N of Barton-upon-Humber. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Hull, a steamferry to Hull, a coast guard station, a national school, and a Wesleyan chapel; and the school-room is used as a chapel of ease. The pop., in 1851, was 401, and was then rapidly increasing; but was not separately returned n 1861.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a sea port village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lincolnshire Ancient County
Place names: HOLLAND     |     HOLLAND NEW     |     NEW HOLLAND
Place: New Holland

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