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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described New Holland like this:
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.
New Holland is now part of NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about New Holland itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of New Holland, in North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24744
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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