Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
PRESCOT	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Appleton	village with railway station	Bartholomew
APPLETON	a village	Imperial
Ashton Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
ASHTON-GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial
Bold	township and hamlet	Bartholomew
BOLD	two hamlets and a township	Imperial
Cronton	township	Bartholomew
CRONTON	a township	Imperial
Cuerdley	township	Bartholomew
CUERDLEY, or Cruerdley	a township	Imperial
Ditton	township and railway station	Bartholomew
DITTON	a township	Imperial
ECCLESTON	a township and two chapelries	Imperial
Haigh Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hammer	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAMMER AND PINCERS	a hamlet	Imperial
Hanging Birch	hamlet	Bartholomew
HANGING-BIRCH	a hamlet	Imperial
LANE-ENDS	a village	Imperial
Luntsheath	hamlet	Bartholomew
LUNTS-HEATH	a hamlet	Imperial
Marshall Cross		Bartholomew
MARSHALL'S CROSS	a place	Imperial
Maypole	hamlet	Bartholomew
MAY POLE	a hamlet	Imperial
Moss Bank	village with railway station	Bartholomew
MOSS-BANK	a hamlet	Imperial
Parr	township	Bartholomew
PARR	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Parr Mount	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Penketh	township	Bartholomew
PENKETH	a township	Imperial
Rainford	town and township	Bartholomew
RAINHILL	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Ravenhead	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
RAVENHEAD	a hamlet	Imperial
Sankey, Great	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
SANKEY (Great)	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Sutton	township and railway station	Bartholomew
SUTTON	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Upton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Whiston	township	Bartholomew
WHISTON	a township	Imperial
WIDNES	a town, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Windle	township	Bartholomew
WINDLE	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 Prescot 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.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire	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
Whiston	0	2
Huyton Quarry	0	2
Eccleston	0	2
Huyton	0	3
Knowsley	0	2
Rainhill	1	2
Thatto Heath	0	1
Roby	0	2
Ravenhead	0	2
Tarbock	1	3
Cronton	0	2
Little Woolton	0	2
Childwall	0	3
St Helens	8	3
Sutton	0	2
Hanging Birch	0	2
Knotty Ash	0	2
Gateacre	0	2
Croxteth Park	0	2
Windle	0	2