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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gisburn Forest like this:
GISBURN-FOREST, a township in Gisburn parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 8 miles S of Settle. It contains the hamlets of Haughton-Chapel and Owlshaw. Acres, 4, 756. Real property, £2, 491. Pop., 301. Houses, 62.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Gisburn Forest by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
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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Tosside | 0 | 2 |
Wigglesworth | 0 | 2 |
Stocks in Bowland | 0 | 2 |
Rathmell | 0 | 2 |
Easington | 0 | 2 |
Deepdale Head | 0 | 2 |
Bolton By Bowland | 0 | 2 |
West Halton | 0 | 2 |
Long Preston | 0 | 2 |
Paythorne | 0 | 2 |
Gisburn | 0 | 2 |
Grindleton | 0 | 3 |
Staincliffe and Ewcross | 0 | 2 |
Newsholme | 0 | 2 |
Hellifield | 0 | 2 |
Giggleswick | 0 | 2 |
Lawkland | 0 | 2 |
Settle | 1 | 2 |
Slaidburn | 0 | 2 |
Sawley | 0 | 2 |