"An account of Hornsea in Holderness in the East-Riding of Yorkshire”. This book is a general history of Hornsea and its immediate vicinity. In the later part of the book there are a considerable number of people's names, including a directory of householders for the time of publication (1848). There is no list of contents in the book and only a short index but this is compensated for by the CD book being searchable. A list of chapter headings is given below, along with a transcription of the short index.

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The list of Chapter headings:

• The Rectory
• The Manor
• The Mere
• Inclosure
• A sea bathing place
• Places of Worship
• Church lands & Chapels
• Schools
• Societies etc.
• Charities
• Prison
• Antiquities
• The Vicinity
• The Sokes
• Agriculture
• Incroachments of the sea
• Geology

The transcription of the index:

• Abbey of St. Mary, York
• Agriculture
• Albemarle, Earls of (2)
• Antiquities
• Beck, Hornsea,
• Burton, ditto
• Charities
• Chalybeate spring ( saline)
• Chapels
• Church : Given to St. Mary's Abbey
• Appropriation of rectory and endowment of vicarage
• Rectory since the dissolution of monasteries
• Fabric described (2)
• Church lands
• Coaches, & c
• Customs, old (2)
• Directory app.
• Domesday Book
• Drogo de Beurere
• Eminent men, born in or near one of the " sokes" of Hornsea
• Etymologies
• Fairs granted
• Fish
• Fee farm rent
• Fox, George, Journal
• Geology
• Gilds
• Gray, Paul, verses, &c.
• Hamlets, or " Sokes".
• History of Yorkshire, up to the time when Holderness & Hornsea are first mentioned : Roman period (2)
  • Anglo Saxon period and Norman conquest (2)
• Holderness (2)
• Inclosure and its effects (2)
• Lodgings
• Manor :
  • Given to St. Mary's
  • Descent since the dissolution of monasteries
  • Customs
• Markets granted (2)
• Mere :
  • Given to St. Mary's
  • Since the dissolution
  • Dimensions
• Merry doings" on the
• Moroar and Edwin, Earls (2)
• Northorp
• Notitia, extract
• Odo de Campania
• Old Hall
• Paul Jones
• Pier
• Population
• Port of Hornsea
• Quakers, early at Hornsea
• Railway
• Road to the beach, new
• Saxon Chronicle
• Sea, incroachment of.
• Schools
• Societies
• Sokes
• Southorp
• Storm in 1732 (2)
• Towns Book
• Vicarage, endowment of
• Vicinity
• Worship, places of
• Wreck of the Diana

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