Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Stanwix	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cargo	township	Bartholomew
CARGO, or Craghow	a township	Imperial
Etterby	hamlet	Bartholomew
ETTERBY	a township	Imperial
HOUGHTON	a township	Imperial
Linstock	hamlet	Bartholomew
LINSTOCK	a township	Imperial
RICKERBY	a township	Imperial
STAINTON	a township	Imperial
TARRABY	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 Stanwix 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	Cumberland	2

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
Houghton	0	2
Kingstown	0	1
Linstock	0	2
Rickergate	0	2
Kingmoor	0	2
Etterby	0	2
Stainton	0	1
Carlisle	86	4
Botchergate	0	1
Crosby upon Eden	0	2
Caldewgate	0	2
Cargo	0	2
Denton Holme	0	2
Westlinton	0	2
Grinsdale	0	2
Warwick	0	2
Harraby	0	1
Scotby	0	2
Rockcliffe	1	2
Scaleby	1	2