Hornsea

University of Hull

Map of Hornsea Engraved for Dade’s proposed History and Antiquities of Holderness. The Rev William Dade died at Barmston in 1790 and the work was never published. The map was eventually published by Poulson in 1840.

‘We find decayed, by the following of the sea in Hornsey Beck, since the first year of King Edward VI, 1546, thirty-eight houses, and as many little closes adjoining. Also we find, since the same time, decayed in ground the breadth of twelve score yards throughout the fields of Hornsey...’
Inquisition held at Hornsea 28th April 1609