Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire

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Withernsea is a town in East Riding of Yorkshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Withernsea within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Withernsea in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Withernsea, township and vil. with ry. sta., Hollym par., East-Riding Yorkshire - township, 746 ac. land and 275 foreshore, pop. 332; vil., 4 miles NE. of Patrington; P.O., T.O.; is a sea-bathing resort, with large hotel and lodging houses. The sea is making encroachments upon the land at this part of the coast.

Withernsea in the Domesday Book

A village in Holderness [South Hundred] hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

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