Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SANDALL	a sub-district	Imperial
Sandal Magna	small town, parish, and township with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dennington	village	Bartholomew
MILTHORPE	a hamlet	Imperial
Standbridge	village	Bartholomew
Walton	township and village	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 Sandal Magna 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 3: South and West Yorkshire	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
Chapelthorpe	0	2
Crigglestone	0	2
Chevet	0	2
Horbury Junction	0	1
Wakefield	50	2
Thornes	0	2
Walton	10	2
Agbrigg	0	3
Lupset	0	1
Horbury	0	2
Woolley	0	2
Notton	0	2
Heath	0	2
Crofton	0	2
Netherton	0	2
Horbury Bridge	0	2
West Bretton	0	2
Alverthorpe	0	2
South Ossett	0	2
Haigh	0	2