Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BARTON	a subdistrict	Imperial
Barton-on-Humber	market town with railway station	Bartholomew
Barton St Mary	parish	Bartholomew
Barton St Peter	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 Barton upon Humber 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	2
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
South Ferriby	0	3
Barrow upon Humber	0	2
Horkstow	0	2
Hessle	2	2
Saxby All Saints	0	1
Thornton Curtis	1	4
Reads Island	0	2
New Holland	0	3
Bonby	0	2
Melton	0	2
North Ferriby	2	4
Swanland	2	2
Wootton	0	2
Worlaby	0	2
Anlaby	2	2
Dairy Coates	0	2
Welton	0	2
Kirk Ella	2	3
West Ella	2	2
Newington	0	3