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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Rochdale. You may be able to find further references to Rochdale in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | ROCHDALE | a town and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Rochdale.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Delph | village and railway terminus | Bartholomew | DELPH | a village and a sub-district | Imperial | Denshaw | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Dobcross | town | Bartholomew | DOBCROSS | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | FRIARMERE | a chapelry | Imperial | Grasscroft | village | Bartholomew | Grotton | village with railway station | Bartholomew | High Moor | village | Bartholomew | Hurstfield | village | Bartholomew | LANEHEAD | a hamlet | Imperial | LORD'S-MERE | Imperial | Lydgate | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew | LYDGATE | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | New Road | village | Bartholomew | Nook | village | Bartholomew | QUICK | a hamlet | Imperial | Quickmere | local government district | Bartholomew | Radcliffe Mill | village | Bartholomew | Saddleworth | township | Bartholomew | Shawhall | village | Bartholomew | Shelderslow | hamlet | Bartholomew | Springhead | village | Bartholomew | Stonesbreak | village | Bartholomew | Stonewood | village | Bartholomew | Upper Mill | small town | Bartholomew | Waterhead | hamlet | Bartholomew | Woodbrough | village | Bartholomew |
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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 Rochdale 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 3: South and West Yorkshire | 6 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland | 3 | John Wesley | 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy | 2 | William Camden | Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire | 1 | George Head | The West Riding | 1 | George Head | Selby and Goole | 1 |
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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 |
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Spotland | 0 | 2 |
Falinge | 0 | 3 |
Wardleworth | 0 | 2 |
Newbold | 0 | 1 |
Castleton Moor | 0 | 2 |
Hamer | 0 | 1 |
Castleton By Rochdale | 0 | 3 |
Bamford | 0 | 2 |
Balderstone | 0 | 1 |
Smallbridge | 0 | 2 |
Healey | 0 | 2 |
Thornham | 0 | 2 |
Heywood | 0 | 2 |
Butterworth | 0 | 2 |
Hopwood | 0 | 2 |
Ashworth | 0 | 2 |
Wuerdle | 0 | 2 |
Dearnley | 0 | 1 |
Norden | 0 | 2 |
Birtle | 0 | 2 |