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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lancaster. You may be able to find further references to Lancaster in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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LANCASTER | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
LANCASTER CASTLE | an extra-parochial place | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Lancaster.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Aldcliffe | township and seat | Bartholomew |
Ashton with Stodday | township | Bartholomew |
ASHTON-WITH-STODDAY | a township | Imperial |
Bleasdale | township | Bartholomew |
BLEASDALE, or Admarsh | a chapelry | Imperial |
Bulk | township | Bartholomew |
BULK | a township | Imperial |
CATON | a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict | Imperial |
Caton-with-Littledale | township with railway station | Bartholomew |
Fulwood | township and railway station | Bartholomew |
FULWOOD | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
Gressingham | township | Bartholomew |
GRESSINGHAM | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
Heaton with Oxcliffe | township | Bartholomew |
Littledale | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
LITTLEDALE | a hamlet-chapelry | Imperial |
Middleton | township and village | Bartholomew |
MIDDLETON | a township | Imperial |
Morecambe | small town | Bartholomew |
MORECAMBE | a seaport-village, conjoint with Poulton-le-Sands | Imperial |
Myerscough | township | Bartholomew |
MYERSCOUGH | a township | Imperial |
OVERTON | a village, a township, and a chapelry | Imperial |
OXCLIFFE | a hamlet | Imperial |
Poulton, Bare and Torrisholme | local government district | Bartholomew |
Poulton le Sands | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
POULTON-LE-SANDS | a sea-port village, a town-ship, and a chapelry | Imperial |
Poulton, (or Poulton le Sands) | township | Bartholomew |
PREESALL-WITH-HACKENSALL | a township | Imperial |
Preesall with Hackinsall | township | Bartholomew |
QUERNMOOR | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
Quernmore | township and village | Bartholomew |
Scotforth | township | Bartholomew |
SCOTFORTH | a village and a township | Imperial |
Skerton | township | Bartholomew |
SKERTON | a suburban village and a township-chapelry | Imperial |
Stalmine | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
Stodday | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Sunderland | hamlet | Bartholomew |
THURNHAM | a township | Imperial |
Torrisholme | hamlet | Bartholomew |
TORRISHOLME | a hamlet | Imperial |
WYERSDALE (Over) | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
Wyresdale (or Wyersdale), Over | township | Bartholomew |
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 Lancaster 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. |
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George Head | North Lancashire | 8 |
William Camden | Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland | 7 |
Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire | 6 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland | 3 |
William Adams | On Tramp | 2 |
Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 2 |
William Adams | Tramp Life | 1 |
James Boswell | October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull | 1 |
William Camden | Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle | 1 |
Thomas Pennant | September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire | 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 |
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Aldcliffe | 0 | 2 |
Skerton | 0 | 2 |
Stodday | 0 | 1 |
Bulk | 0 | 2 |
Scotforth | 0 | 2 |
Torrisholme | 0 | 2 |
Heaton | 0 | 2 |
Ashton | 0 | 2 |
Bare | 0 | 2 |
Quernmore | 0 | 2 |
Slyne | 0 | 1 |
Hest Bank | 3 | 2 |
Galgate | 0 | 2 |
Glasson | 0 | 2 |
Heysham | 0 | 2 |
Morecambe | 1 | 9 |
Ellel | 0 | 2 |
Thurnham | 0 | 2 |
Middleton | 0 | 2 |
Halton | 0 | 2 |