Kingston upon Hull, East Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Hull river Bartholomew
HULL AND HOLDERNESS RAILWAY a railway Imperial
HULL AND HORNSEA RAILWAY a railway Imperial
HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY a railway Imperial
Hull, or Kingston-upon-Hull parliamentary and municipal borough Bartholomew
HULL, or KINGSTON-UPON-HULL a large seaport town Imperial
HULL (THE) a river Imperial
Kingston upon Hull parliamentary and municipal borough and parish Bartholomew

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 Kingston upon Hull 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.
Arthur Young Hull 49
Daniel Defoe Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland 16
George Head Hull 12
George Head Selby and Goole 11
William Camden Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 8
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 7
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley 5
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: York and Scarborough 5
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 3
George Head East Riding 3
George Head Carlisle and the Solway Firth 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland 2
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth 2
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham 2
William Camden Essex and Suffolk 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland 1
George Head North Riding 1
John Wesley 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery 1
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 1
Thomas Pennant Wybunbury to Darlaston 1
Thomas Pennant June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix VIII: Itinerary 1
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk 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
Sculcoates 5 2
Groves 0 1
Drypool 0 2
Wilmington 0 2
Garrison Side 0 2
Myton 0 1
Stoneferry 0 2
Humber 0 3
Southcoates 0 2
Newland 0 2
Dairy Coates 0 2
Newington 0 3
Sutton on Hull 1 4
Marfleet 0 2
New Holland 0 3
Anlaby 2 2
Haltemprice 0 2
Cottingham 1 2
Ganstead 0 2
Bilton 0 3

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Kingston upon Hull. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
HULL John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
George Head A Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836).
Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
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).
Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
HULL AND HOLDERNESS RAILWAY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
HULL AND HORNSEA RAILWAY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
HULL OR KINGSTON UPON HULL 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).
HULL THE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
KING STON William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
KINGSTON William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
KINGSTON ON Y<SUP>E</SUP> HULL Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
KING STON UPON HULL William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
KINGSTON UPON HULL 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).
THE HULL John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WIKE 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.