Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BEES (St.)	a small town, a township, and a subdistrict	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Braystones	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
BRAYSTONES	a hamlet	Imperial
Corkickle	village with railway station	Bartholomew
CORKICKLE	a village	Imperial
ENNERDALE	a township, a chapelry, a vale, and a lake	Imperial
Ennerdale and Kinniside	township	Bartholomew
Eskdale	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
ESKDALE	a chapelry	Imperial
Eskdale and Wasdale Head	township	Bartholomew
Ginns	hamlet	Bartholomew
GINNS	a hamlet	Imperial
Harris, High and Low	2 hamlets	Bartholomew
HARRIS (HIGH and LOW)	two hamlets	Imperial
Hensingham	township and village	Bartholomew
HENSINGHAM	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Hutbank	hamlet	Bartholomew
HUTBANK	a hamlet	Imperial
Kinniside	hamlet	Bartholomew
KINNISIDE	a township	Imperial
Loweswater	township	Bartholomew
Lowmill	hamlet	Bartholomew
LOWMILL	a hamlet	Imperial
Lowside Quarter	coastal township	Bartholomew
LOWSIDE QUARTER	a township	Imperial
Mockerkin	hamlet	Bartholomew
Preston Quarter	township	Bartholomew
PRESTON-QUARTER	a township	Imperial
Rottington	coastal township	Bartholomew
ROTTINGTON	a township	Imperial
Sandwith	township and village	Bartholomew
SANDWITH	a village and a township	Imperial
Sosgill	hamlet	Bartholomew
Wasdale Head	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WASDALE-HEAD	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Wasdale, Nether	township	Bartholomew
WASDALE (Nether)	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Wast Water	lake	Bartholomew
Weddicar (or Weddiker)	township	Bartholomew
WEDDIKER	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 St Bees 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	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	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
Ennerdale	0	3
How Hall	0	2
Haile	0	3
Mosedale	0	2
Wilton	0	2
Salter	0	2
Eskett	0	1
Ponsonby	0	2
Beckermet St Bridget	0	2
Wasdale	0	6
Lamplugh	0	2
Gosforth	0	2
Copeland	3	2
Cleator Moor	0	2
Calder Bridge	0	2
Frizington	0	2
Wasdale Head	0	2
Loweswater	1	2
Murton	0	1
Arlecdon	0	2