Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kilnsea coastal parish and village Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Kilnsea.

Place Type of entry Source
Spurn Head headland Bartholomew
SPURN HEAD a headland Imperial

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 Kilnsea 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.
George Head East Riding 6
William Camden Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 2
George Head North Riding 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
Ravensrodd 0 2
Easington 2 2
Spurn Head 0 2
Skeffling 1 2
Burstall Garth 0 2
Bull Sand 0 2
Out Newton 0 3
Rysome 0 2
Welwick 0 2
Holmpton 0 2
Cleethorpes 0 2
Hollym 0 2
Sunk Island 0 2
Patrington 10 2
New Clee 0 1
Humberston 0 2
Clee 0 2
North Coates 0 3
Withernsea 1 2
Winestead 1 2