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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Aberford. You may be able to find further references to Aberford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Aberford | parish | Bartholomew |
ABERFORD | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Aberford.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Parlington | township | Bartholomew |
PARLINGTON | a township | Imperial |
Sturton Grange | 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 Aberford 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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Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 3 |
William Camden | Yorkshire: West Riding | 2 |
Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth | 2 |
Charles Wesley | Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland | 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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Parlington | 0 | 2 |
Elmet | 0 | 1 |
Lotherton | 0 | 2 |
Sturton Grange | 0 | 2 |
Barwick in Elmet | 1 | 2 |
Hazlewood | 0 | 2 |
Micklefield | 0 | 2 |
Lead | 0 | 1 |
Scholes | 0 | 2 |
Austhorpe | 0 | 2 |
Huddleston | 1 | 2 |
Saxton | 0 | 2 |
Bramham | 0 | 3 |
Newthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Garforth | 1 | 2 |
Manston | 0 | 2 |
Wothersome | 0 | 2 |
Thorner | 0 | 2 |
Towton | 7 | 2 |
Barkston | 0 | 4 |