Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brough	parish, township, and market town	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brough Sowerby	township	Bartholomew
BROUGH-SOWERBY	a township	Imperial
Hilbeck	township	Bartholomew
HILBECK	a township	Imperial
Stainmore	township	Bartholomew
STAINMORE	a township-chapelry	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 Brough 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	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	7
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	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
Stainmore	3	2
Brough Sowerby	0	2
Hillbeck	0	2
Kaber	0	2
Winton	0	2
Musgrave	1	5
Rey Cross	0	4
Hartley	1	2
Little Musgrave	0	2
Warcop	0	2
Lunedale	0	2
Nateby	0	2
Kirkby Stephen	3	2
Soulby	0	2
Burton	0	2
Bleatarn	0	1
Romaldkirk	0	2
East Ward	0	2
Mickle Fell	0	2
Sandford	0	2