Lythe, North Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lythe. You may be able to find further references to Lythe in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Lythe parish, township, and village Bartholomew
LYTHE a village, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Lythe.

Place Type of entry Source
Barnby coastal township Bartholomew
BARNBY, or East Barnby a township Imperial
Borrowby township Bartholomew
Briscoe hamlet Bartholomew
BRISCOE a hamlet Imperial
Egton township and village with railway station Bartholomew
Ellerby township Bartholomew
ELLERBY a township Imperial
Goldsbrough coastal village Bartholomew
GOLDSBROUGH a hamlet Imperial
Hutton Mulgrave township Bartholomew
HUTTON-MULGRAVE a township Imperial
Kettleness coastal hamlet Bartholomew
KETTLENESS a hamlet Imperial
Limber Hill hamlet Bartholomew
MICKLEBY a township Imperial
Mulgrave Castle seat Bartholomew
MULGRAVE CASTLE the seat Imperial
MULGRAVE-NEWTON a township Imperial
Newbegin hamlet Bartholomew
Newton Mulgrave township Bartholomew
Sandsend coastal village with railway station Bartholomew
SANDSEND a sea-port village Imperial
UGTHORPE a township Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Hutton Mulgrave 0 2
Ugthorpe 0 2
Esk 1 2
Grosmont 0 2
Beggars Bridge 0 2
Mickleby 0 2
Lealholme 0 4
Aislaby 0 2
Barnby 0 2
Mulgrave Castle 2 2
Dunsley 0 1
Ellerby 0 2
Newton Mulgrave 0 2
Egton 0 2
Newholm 0 2
Sandsend 1 2
Hob Holes 0 2
Eskdaleside 0 2
Glaisdale 0 2
Sleights Moor 0 1

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Lythe. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
LYTHE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.