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The following appear as names for Lowestoft. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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LOTHU WISTOFT | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
LOWESTOFT | 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). | |
LOWESTOFT OR NORTHERN DIVISION THE | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Lowestoft. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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E340979 | Local Government District (MB) | |
EASTERN SUFFOLK LOWESTOFT | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
EAST SUFFOLK LOWESTOFT | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Constituency (CCon) | Boundary Commission for England, First Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 1954) | |
LOWESOFT | Urban Labour Market | Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette (H.M.S.O.) |
LOWESTOFT | Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974) |
Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 460. | |
Local Government District (MB) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 679. | |
Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 460. | |
Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. | |
Sanitary District (USD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 681. | |
Urban Labour Market | Great Britain Historical GIS Project | |
LOWESTOFT CHRIST CHURCH | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 460. |
LOWESTOFT ST JOHN | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 460. |
NORTHERN SUFFOLK | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
SUFFOLK EAST LOWESTOFT | Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969) |
SUFFOLK LOWESTOFT | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Constituency (CCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 (Chichester: Political Reference Publications, 1971) | |
SUFFOLK NORTHERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
SUFFOLK NORTHERN OR LOWESTOFT | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Lowestoft, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Lowestoft, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lowestoft, in Waveney and Suffolk | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/518/names
Date accessed: 30th October 2024