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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Pontefract. You may be able to find further references to Pontefract in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Pomfret | Bartholomew | |
PONTEFRACT or Pomfret | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
Pontefract Park | township | Bartholomew |
PONTEFRACT-PARK | an extra-parochial tract | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Pontefract.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Carleton | township | Bartholomew |
CARLETON | a township | Imperial |
Frystone (or Water Frystone) | uninhabited tract | Bartholomew |
Hardwick, East | township | Bartholomew |
HARDWICKE (EAST) | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
Knottingley | township with railway station | Bartholomew |
Monkhill | township | Bartholomew |
MONKHILL | a township | Imperial |
Tanshelf | township and railway station | Bartholomew |
TANSHELF | a township | Imperial |
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 Pontefract 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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William Camden | Yorkshire: West Riding | 5 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 4 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 2 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth | 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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Monkhill | 0 | 2 |
Tanshelf | 0 | 2 |
Carleton | 0 | 2 |
Glass Houghton | 0 | 3 |
Ferrybridge | 4 | 5 |
Purston Jaglin | 0 | 3 |
Castleford | 14 | 2 |
Featherstone | 0 | 2 |
Knottingley | 6 | 2 |
Ackton | 0 | 3 |
East Hardwick | 0 | 3 |
Whitwood Mere | 0 | 1 |
Water Frystone | 0 | 2 |
Darrington | 0 | 2 |
Ackworth | 0 | 2 |
Sutton | 0 | 2 |
Hill Top | 0 | 2 |
Whitwood | 0 | 2 |
Brotherton | 4 | 2 |
West Hardwick | 0 | 2 |