Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brotherton	parish and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Byram with Poole	township	Bartholomew
BYROME-WITH-POOL	a township	Imperial
POOL	a hamlet	Imperial
Sutton	township	Bartholomew
SUTTON	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 Brotherton 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	Yorkshire: West Riding	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	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
Sutton	0	2
Byram	0	2
Burton Salmon	0	2
Water Frystone	0	2
Knottingley	6	2
Ferrybridge	4	5
Fairburn	0	3
Hillam	0	2
Monkhill	0	2
Beal	0	2
Lumby	0	1
Monk Fryston	0	3
Criding Stubbs	0	2
Milford Junction	0	2
Osgoldcross	0	2
Pontefract	14	5
Ledsham	0	2
South Milford	0	4
Castleford	14	2
Glass Houghton	0	3