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The following appear as names for the Isle of Grain. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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GRAIN | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
GRAIN ISLE OF | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
GRAIN ISLE OF OR ST JAMES | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). | |
ISLE OF GRAIN | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
ST JAMES | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with the Isle of Grain. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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GRAIN | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 273. |
ISLE OF GRAIN | Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 273. |
JAMES ST IN THE ISLE OF GRAIN | Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. |
ST JAMES ISLE OF GRAIN | Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | 1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with the Isle of Grain, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of the Isle of Grain, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of the Isle of Grain, in Medway and Kent | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2867/names
Date accessed: 21st September 2024