Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Nidd river Bartholomew
Nidd parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew
NIDD (The) a river Imperial
NIDD VALLEY railway a railway 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 Nidd 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.
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North 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
Brearton 0 2
Scotton 0 2
Ripley 4 2
South Stainley 0 3
Bilton 0 3
Killinghall 0 2
Clint 0 2
Low Harrogate 0 1
Farnham 0 2
Conyngham House 0 2
Starbeck 0 2
Scriven 0 2
Harrogate 14 2
Walkingham Hill 0 2
Burton Leonard 0 2
Occaney 0 1
Copgrove 1 2
Knaresborough 13 2
Ingerthorpe 0 1
Bishop Thornton 0 2