Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ravenspur

Ravenspur, former seaport, East-Riding Yorkshire, at the mouth of the Humber, near Spurn Head; was also called Ravenspurn, Ravenser, and Ravensrode; returned a member to the Parliaments of Edward I.; suffered much injury from the sea in 1346, and again in 1357; was the landing-place of Henry IV. in 1399 and of Edward IV. in 1471, and was soon afterwards entirely swept away by the sea.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "former seaport"   (ADL Feature Type: "harbors")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place names: RAVENSER     |     RAVENSPUR     |     RAVENSPURN     |     RAVENSRODE
Place: Ravensrodd

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