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	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	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 Hist. 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