Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LANCASTER	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
LANCASTER CASTLE	an extra-parochial place	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aldcliffe	township and seat	Bartholomew
Ashton with Stodday	township	Bartholomew
ASHTON-WITH-STODDAY	a township	Imperial
Bleasdale	township	Bartholomew
BLEASDALE, or Admarsh	a chapelry	Imperial
Bulk	township	Bartholomew
BULK	a township	Imperial
CATON	a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict	Imperial
Caton-with-Littledale	township with railway station	Bartholomew
Fulwood	township and railway station	Bartholomew
FULWOOD	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Gressingham	township	Bartholomew
GRESSINGHAM	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Heaton with Oxcliffe	township	Bartholomew
Littledale	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
LITTLEDALE	a hamlet-chapelry	Imperial
Middleton	township and village	Bartholomew
MIDDLETON	a township	Imperial
Morecambe	small town	Bartholomew
MORECAMBE	a seaport-village, conjoint with Poulton-le-Sands	Imperial
Myerscough	township	Bartholomew
MYERSCOUGH	a township	Imperial
OVERTON	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
OXCLIFFE	a hamlet	Imperial
Poulton, Bare and Torrisholme	local government district	Bartholomew
Poulton le Sands	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
POULTON-LE-SANDS	a sea-port village, a town-ship, and a chapelry	Imperial
Poulton, (or Poulton le Sands)	township	Bartholomew
PREESALL-WITH-HACKENSALL	a township	Imperial
Preesall with Hackinsall	township	Bartholomew
QUERNMOOR	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Quernmore	township and village	Bartholomew
Scotforth	township	Bartholomew
SCOTFORTH	a village and a township	Imperial
Skerton	township	Bartholomew
SKERTON	a suburban village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Stalmine	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Stodday	hamlet	Bartholomew
Sunderland	hamlet	Bartholomew
THURNHAM	a township	Imperial
Torrisholme	hamlet	Bartholomew
TORRISHOLME	a hamlet	Imperial
WYERSDALE (Over)	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Wyresdale (or Wyersdale), Over	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 Lancaster 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.
George Head	North Lancashire	8
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	7
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	3
William Adams	On Tramp	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
William Adams	Tramp Life	1
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	1
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle	1
Thomas Pennant	September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire	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
Aldcliffe	0	2
Skerton	0	2
Stodday	0	1
Bulk	0	2
Scotforth	0	2
Torrisholme	0	2
Heaton	0	2
Ashton	0	2
Bare	0	2
Quernmore	0	2
Slyne	0	1
Hest Bank	3	2
Galgate	0	2
Glasson	0	2
Heysham	0	2
Morecambe	1	9
Ellel	0	2
Thurnham	0	2
Middleton	0	2
Halton	0	2