Holderness, East Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Holderness wapentake Bartholomew
HOLDERNESS a wapentake Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Holderness within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Camden Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 8
Thomas Pennant June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding 3
William Camden Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln 1
William Camden Smaller Islands in the British Ocean 1
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth 1
Arthur Young Hull 1

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
Flinton 0 2
Sproatley 0 2
Humbleton 0 2
West Newton 0 2
Burton Constable 5 2
Lelley 0 2
Fosham 0 2
Thirtleby 0 2
Elstronwick 0 2
Aldbrough 0 2
Wyton 0 2
Danthorpe 0 2
Fitling 0 2
Coniston 0 2
Marton 0 2
Ellerby 0 2
Withernwick 0 2
Bilton 0 3
Colden Parva 0 2
Preston 0 4

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CAVAM DEIRAM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
HOLDERNESS 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).
HOLDERNESSE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
OCELLUM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.