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Locality
Coordinate	53.89212, -0.31861
Adm. div.	East Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	W of North Sea; S and E of Yorkshire Wolds; N of Humber Estuary
Type	Area
Interest	Literary locale
Status	Extant
First Record	c. 1500

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Holderness Farmland – fertile, arable and almost flat / Andy Beecroft, 17 Jul. 2006, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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The pointer put at a random spot in Holderness.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Holderness is an area, originally a wapentake, whose boundaries are defined by the Yorkshire Wolds to the north and west, the North Sea to the east and the Humber Estuary to the south. In the Gest (see Quotation below), Little John gets employed by the sheriff of Nottingham under the false identity of Reynold Greenleaf, pretending to be a native of Holderness.

Holderness is first mentioned in Domesday Book (1086) as "Heldernes". The etymology is supposed to be ON "hǫldr" (a "higher yeoman", an "owner of allodial land") + OE "næss" (cape, headland).^[1]

For the record, it may be noted that there are a Holderness and Holderness Wood c. 1.75 km south of Mytholmroyd, West (Riding of) Yorkshire.^[2] It is, however, very unlikely that this Holderness should be the one intended in the Gest. If it had been, the vast majority of readers would still have assumed that the East Riding wapentake was meant. I do not know if the Mytholmroyd Holderness is a relatively recent place-name or if it is recorded in medieval sources.

Quotations

[Gest, st. 149; c. 1500]
in Holdernes sir I was borne
I wys al of my dame
men cal me Reynolde Grenelef
whan I am at home^[3]

Gazetteers

Not in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the East Riding of Yorkshire and York (English Place-Name Society, vol. XIV) (Cambridge, 1970), pp. 14-15.

Background

Also see

Place-names in Gest of Robyn Hode.

Notes

East Riding of Yorkshire place-names

Yorkshire place-names

Place-names

[1] Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the East Riding of Yorkshire and York (English Place-Name Society, vol. XIV) (Cambridge, 1970), pp. 14-15.

[2] 6" O.S. map YorkshireCCXXX.SW (1894; surveyed 1892).

[3] Gest of Robyn Hode, st. 149.

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 Holderness is an area, originally a wapentake, whose boundaries are defined by the Yorkshire Wolds to the north and west, the North Sea to the east and the Humber Estuary to the south. In the [[Gest of Robyn Hode|''Gest'']] (see Quotation below), Little John gets employed by the sheriff of Nottingham under the false identity of Reynold Greenleaf, pretending to be a native of Holderness.
 Holderness is first mentioned in Domesday Book (1086) as "Heldernes". The etymology is supposed to be ON "h&#491;ldr" (a "higher yeoman", an "owner of allodial land") + OE "næss" (cape, headland).<ref>{{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1970a}}, pp. 14-15.</ref>
-For the record, it may be noted that there are a Holderness and Holderness Wood ''c.'' 1.75 km south of Mytholmroyd, West (Riding of) Yorkshire.<ref>[http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947545#zoom=5&lat=4726&lon=4384&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire''CCXXX.SW (1894; surveyed 1892).] </ref> It is, however, very unlikely that this Holderness should be the one intended in the ''Gest''. If it had been, the vast majority of  readers would still have assumed that the East Riding wapentake was meant. I do not know if the Mytholmroyd Holderness is a relatively recent place-name or if it is recorded in medieval sources.
+For the record, it may be noted that there are a Holderness and Holderness Wood ''c.'' 1.75 km south of Mytholmroyd, West (Riding of) Yorkshire.<ref>[http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947545#zoom=5&lat=4726&lon=4384&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire''CCXXX.SW (1894; surveyed 1892).] </ref> It is, however, very unlikely that this Holderness should be the one intended in the ''Gest''. If it had been, the vast majority of  readers would still have assumed that the East Riding wapentake was meant. I do not know if the Mytholmroyd Holderness is a relatively recent place-name or if it is recorded in medieval sources.{{#ask:[[Category:Records ({{PAGENAME}})]]|format=embedded|embedformat=h3|columns=1|limit=1000|sort=Utitle|intro=<h2>Records</h2><div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed records" data-expandtext="Show records" data-collapsetext="Hide records">|outro=</div>}}
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-=== Quotation ===
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 <div class="blockthorny">
-<p>in Holdernes sir I was borne<br/>I wys al of my dame<br/>men cal me Reynolde Grenelef<br/>whan I am at home<ref>''Gest'', st. 149.</ref></p></div>
+<p>[''Gest'', st. 149; ''c.'' 1500]<br/>in Holdernes sir I was borne<br/>I wys al of my dame<br/>men cal me Reynolde Grenelef<br/>whan I am at home<ref>''[[Gest of Robyn Hode]]'', st. 149.</ref></p></div>
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 * Not in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-311.
-=== Sources ===
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 * {{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1970a}}, pp. 14-15.
-=== Background ===
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 * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947545#zoom=5&lat=4726&lon=4384&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXX.SW (1894; surveyed 1892)]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holderness Wikipedia: Holderness.]
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