Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Sefton (or Sephton)	parish and township with railway station	Bartholomew
Sephton		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aintree	township with railway station	Bartholomew
Crosby, Little	coastal township	Bartholomew
Crosby, or Great Crosby	coastal town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
Ford	hamlet	Bartholomew
Ince Blundell	township and seat	Bartholomew
INCE-BLUNDELL	a village and a township	Imperial
LITHERLAND	a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict	Imperial
Litherland (or Waterloo)	coastal township	Bartholomew
Lunt	township	Bartholomew
LUNT	a township	Imperial
Netherton	township and village	Bartholomew
NETHERTON	a township, with a village	Imperial
Orrell and Ford	township	Bartholomew
ORRELL and FORD	a township	Imperial
SEAFORTH	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Stand Park	seat	Bartholomew
Thornton	township	Bartholomew
Waterloo with Seaforth	town	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 Sefton 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	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	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
Thornton	0	2
Lunt	0	2
Ford	0	2
Litherland	0	2
Netherton	0	2
Orrell	0	2
Great Crosby	0	3
Blundellsands	0	1
Waterloo	0	3
Ince Blundell	0	2
Little Crosby	0	2
Seaforth	0	2
Bootle	0	2
Maghull	1	2
Aintree	0	2
Altcar	0	2
Hightown	0	2
Lydiate	0	2
Walton Junction	0	2
Melling	0	3