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The following appear as names for Kings Lynn. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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BISHOPS LYNN | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
FREEBRIDGE LYNN | 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). | |
KINGS LYNN | 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). | |
KINGS LYNN LYNN REGIS OR LYNN | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
LYNN | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
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). | |
Arthur Young | A Tour in Ireland, made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778 (London: T. Cadell, 1780). | |
LYNN EPISCOPI | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
LYNN KINGS LYNN OR LYNN REGIS | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
LYNN REGIS | 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). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Kings Lynn. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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33UE | District/Unitary Authority | Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics) |
E250765 | Local Government District (MB) | |
E250778 | Local Government District (RD) | |
FREEBRIDGE | Constituency (PDivCon) | Great Britain Historical GIS Project |
FREEBRIDGE LYNN | Ancient District (Hundred) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 653. |
Local Government District (RD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 659. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 656. | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 657. | |
KINGS LYNN | 1841 Occupation reporting area | 1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'. |
Ancient District (Borough) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 654. | |
Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Constituency (PBCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Local Government District (MB) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 654. | |
Local Government District (RD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 659. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 370. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 656. | |
Registration sub-District | Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office) | |
Sanitary District (USD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 657. | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 657. | |
Urban Labour Market | Great Britain Historical GIS Project | |
KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK | District/Unitary Authority | Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics) |
KINGS LYNN MIDDLE | Registration sub-District | 1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'. |
KINGS LYNN NORTH | Registration sub-District | Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office) |
KINGS LYNN SOUTH | Registration sub-District | Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office) |
KINGS LYNN ST JOHN | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 370. |
KINGS LYNN ST MARGARET | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 370. |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 370. | |
KINGS LYNN ST MARGARET WITH ST NICHOLAS | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 370. |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 370. | |
LYNN | Archdeaconry | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781. |
Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781. | |
Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781. | |
LYNN NORFOLK | Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781. |
LYNN or LYNN REGIS | Constituency (PBCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
MARGARET ST | Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. |
NORFOLK KINGS LYNN | 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) | |
NORFOLK NORTH WESTERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
NORTH KINGS LYNN | 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'. |
NORTH WESTERN NORFOLK | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
SOUTH KINGS LYNN | 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'. |
ST MARGARET | Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | 1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 12, 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Kings Lynn, 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 Kings Lynn, 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 Kings Lynn in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/565/names
Date accessed: 13th February 2025