Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Burgh-by-Sands parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bonstead Hill locality Bartholomew
BONSTEAD HILL a township Imperial
Boustead Hill township Bartholomew
Dykesfield village Bartholomew
DYKESFIELD a village Imperial
Longburgh hamlet Bartholomew
LONGBURGH a township Imperial
Moorhouse village Bartholomew
MOORHOUSE a township Imperial
Thurstonfield village Bartholomew
Westend hamlet Bartholomew
WESTEND a hamlet 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 Burgh By Sands 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 Cumberland 3

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
Longburgh 0 2
Dykesfield 0 2
Thurstonfield 0 2
Moorhouse 0 2
Beaumont 0 2
Kirkandrews upon Eden 0 3
Easton 0 2
Kirkbampton 0 4
Castletown 0 2
Drumburgh 0 2
Cargo 0 2
Grinsdale 0 2
Rockcliffe 1 2
Orton 0 2
Wiggonby 0 2
Kingmoor 0 2
Aikton 0 2
Stainton 0 1
Browhouses 0 2
Etterby 0 2