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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Grimsby. You may be able to find further references to Grimsby in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Great Grimsby | parliamentary and municipal borough and parish | Bartholomew |
GRIMSBY (Great) | a town, a parish, and a sub-district | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Grimsby.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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WELLOW, or Welhove | a hamlet | Imperial |
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 Grimsby 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. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 4 |
William Camden | Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln | 3 |
Charles Wesley | Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol | 2 |
John Wesley | 1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles | 2 |
John Wesley | 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery | 2 |
Charles Wesley | May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City | 1 |
John Wesley | 1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness | 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 |
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Wellow | 0 | 1 |
Little Coates | 0 | 2 |
Clee | 0 | 2 |
New Clee | 0 | 1 |
Scartho | 0 | 2 |
Weelsby | 0 | 2 |
Great Coates | 0 | 3 |
Bradley | 0 | 2 |
Cleethorpes | 0 | 2 |
Healing | 0 | 2 |
Waltham | 0 | 2 |
Laceby | 0 | 2 |
Bradley Haverstoe | 0 | 2 |
Humberston | 0 | 2 |
Aylesby | 0 | 2 |
Barnoldby le Beck | 0 | 2 |
Holton le Clay | 0 | 2 |
Brigsley | 0 | 2 |
Stallingborough | 0 | 2 |
Irby | 0 | 2 |