Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
KNUTSFORD	a town, two townships, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bexton	township	Bartholomew
BEXTON	a township	Imperial
Cross Town	village	Bartholomew
CROSS TOWN	a chapelry	Imperial
MARTHALL	a township	Imperial
Ollerton	township	Bartholomew
OLLERTON	a township	Imperial
TOFT	a township and a 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 Knutsford 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	Shropshire and Cheshire	1
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Cross Town	0	2
Bexton	0	2
Toft	0	2
Tatton	0	2
Ollerton	0	2
Rostherne	0	2
Tabley Superior	0	2
Mobberley	0	2
Tabley Inferior	1	2
Peover Inferior	0	4
Marthall	0	2
Little Warford	0	1
Plumley	0	2
Over Peover	1	5
Great Warford	0	2
Mere	0	2
Bucklow	0	2
Nether Peover	0	3
Ashley	0	2
Hoo Green	0	2