Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Skipton. You may be able to find further references to Skipton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
SKIPTON	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
SKIPTON AND WHARFDALE RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Skipton.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barden	township	Bartholomew
BARDEN	a township	Imperial
BEAMSLEY	a township	Imperial
Bolton Abbey	township	Bartholomew
BOLTON-ABBEY, or East Bolton	a township chapelry	Imperial
Draughton	township	Bartholomew
DRAUGHTON	a township	Imperial
Drebley	hamlet	Bartholomew
DREBLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Eastby	hamlet	Bartholomew
Embsay with Eastby	township	Bartholomew
EMBSAY-WITH-EASTBY	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Halton, East	township	Bartholomew
HALTON (EAST)	a Township	Imperial
Hazlewood and Storiths	township	Bartholomew
Stirton with Thorlby	township	Bartholomew
STIRTON-WITH-THORLBY	a township	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Skipton within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Embsay	0	2
Bradleys Both	0	2
Stirton	0	2
Eastby	0	1
Thorlby	0	1
Halton East	0	2
Cononley	0	2
Draughton	0	2
Farnhill	0	2
Carleton	0	2
Kildwick	0	2
Glusburn	0	2
Broughton	0	3
Silsden	0	2
Cross Hills	0	2
Bolton Abbey	1	2
Elslack	0	2
Eastburn	0	2
Flasby	0	2
Addingham	0	2