New Holland, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Holland, New, a seaport village in Barrow-upon-Humber parish, Lincolnshire, on the river Humber, and on the M.S. & L.E., opposite Hull, 4 miles E by N from Barton-upon-Humber. It has a station on the railway, a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hull, a steam ferry to Hull, a coastguard station, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a schoolroom which is licensed by the Bishop of Lincoln for divine service. Population, 1176.

Maps

Online maps of New Holland are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury