Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• New Holland 1828 Bry

• the modern hamlet of the New Holland, where a large Inn was built on the Humber bank about ten years ago 1842 White

Etymology

NEW HOLLAND, New Holland 1828 Bry, the modern hamlet of the New Holland , where a large Inn was built on the Humber bank about ten years ago 1842 White. A note in LNQ ii, no. 96, quotes from the Hull Advertiser, Dec. 8th, 1848, which it is claimed throws light on the origin of the name “On the 4th instant, at Caister [died], Mr. Thomas Lumley … from whom New Holland first received its name, he having landed there a cargo of smuggled goods …”.