Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BIRKENHEAD	a seaport town, a township, and seven chapelries	Imperial
BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY	a ramified railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Woodside	ecclesiastical district and railway station	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 Birkenhead 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.
George Head	The Wirral	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
Oxton	0	2
Claughton	0	2
Tranmere	0	2
Prenton	0	2
Noctorum	0	2
Rock Ferry	0	2
Landican	0	2
Seacombe	4	2
Bidston	3	3
Storeton	0	2
Poulton	0	2
New Ferry	0	1
Upton By Birkenhead	0	2
Woodchurch	0	2
Arrowe	0	2
Thingwall	0	2
Bebington	0	2
Egremont	0	2
Wallasey	0	2
Greasby	0	2