Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Owston parish and township Bartholomew
OWSTON a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial
Owston Ferry (or West Ferry) small town Bartholomew
West Ferry Bartholomew
WEST FERRY, or Owston-Ferry a small town Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Butterwick, West, with Kelfield township Bartholomew
BUTTERWICK (West), with Kelfield a townshipchapelry Imperial
EAST FERRY a township Imperial
Gunthorpe hamlet Bartholomew
GUNTHORPE a hamlet Imperial
Heckdyke hamlet Bartholomew
Kelfield hamlet Bartholomew
Melwood hamlet Bartholomew
MELWOOD a hamlet Imperial
West Butterwick village Bartholomew

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
Wildsworth 0 2
East Ferry 0 3
Haxey 2 2
Upperthorpe 0 2
West Stockwith 0 3
West Butterwick 2 3
Westwoodside 1 2
Greenhill and Redhill 0 2
Laughton By Gainsborough 0 2
Newbig 0 2
Epworth 34 2
East Stockwith 3 3
Scotter 2 2
Blyton 0 2
Misterton 2 2
East Butterwick 0 2
Scotton 0 2
Walkerith 0 2
Axholme 0 2
Morton 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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