Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blackburn	hundred	Bartholomew
BLACKBURN	a town, a township, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
BLACKBURN RAILWAYS	railways	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balderston	township	Bartholomew
BALDERSTON	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Bamber Bridge	ecclesiastical district and village with railway station	Bartholomew
Billington	township	Bartholomew
BILLINGTON	a subdistrict	Imperial
BILLINGTON-LANGHO	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Clayton-in-le-Dale	township	Bartholomew
CLAYTON-LE-DALE	a township	Imperial
Cuerdale	township	Bartholomew
CUERDALE	a township	Imperial
DARWEN (Lower)	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
DARWEN (Over)	a town, a township, and three chapelries	Imperial
Dinckley	township	Bartholomew
DINKLEY	a township	Imperial
Eccleshill	township	Bartholomew
ECCLESHILL	a township	Imperial
Feniscowles	ecclesiastical district and village with railway station	Bartholomew
FENISCOWLES	a chapelry	Imperial
Great Harwood	town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
Harwood, Great	town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
Harwood, Little	township	Bartholomew
HARWOOD (LITTLE)	a township	Imperial
HODDLESDEN	a hamlet and a chapelry	Imperial
Langho	ecclesiastical district and village with railway station	Bartholomew
Livesey	township	Bartholomew
LIVESEY	a township	Imperial
LOSTOCK	a hamlet	Imperial
Lostock Hall	railway station and seat	Bartholomew
Lower Darwen	township and railway station	Bartholomew
MELLOR-BROOK	a hamlet	Imperial
Osbaldeston	township	Bartholomew
OSBALDESTON	a township	Imperial
Pleasington	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
PLEASINGTON	a township	Imperial
RAMSGRAVE	a township	Imperial
Ramsgreave	township	Bartholomew
Rishton	township and railway station	Bartholomew
RISHTON	a village and a township	Imperial
Samlesbury	township	Bartholomew
SAMLESBURY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
TOCKHOLES	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Walton, Higher	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Walton in le Dale	township	Bartholomew
Wilpshire	township and railway station	Bartholomew
WILPSHIRE	a township	Imperial
Witton	township	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 Blackburn 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 Adams	On Tramp	1
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	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
Little Harwood	0	2
Lower Darwen	0	2
Knuzden	0	1
Witton	0	2
Livesey	0	2
Ramsgreave	0	2
Feniscowles	0	2
Pleasington	0	2
Rishton	0	2
Mellor	0	2
Eccleshill	0	2
Yate Bank	0	2
Salesbury	0	2
Oswaldtwistle	0	2
Pick Up Bank	0	1
Wilpshire	0	2
Tockholes	0	2
Hoddlesden	0	2
Church	0	2
Darwen	0	5