Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beeston	township with railway station	Bartholomew

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 Beeston 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.
Thomas Pennant	Chester to Bunbury	7
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Thomas Pennant	Stone to Stafford	1
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	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
Tiverton	0	2
Peckforton	3	2
Bunbury	4	2
Burwardsley	0	2
Tilstone Fearnall	0	2
Iddinshall	0	2
Huxley	0	2
Tattenhall	0	2
Newton By Tattenhall	0	2
Spurstow	0	2
Clotton Hoofield	0	2
Ridley	1	2
Alpraham	2	2
Bulkeley	1	2
Harthill	0	2
Tarporley	2	2
Haughton	0	2
Eaton By Tarporley	0	2
Burton By Tarvin	0	3
Utkinton	6	2