Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Birstall	parish and town with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LATHAM	a hamlet	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 Birstall 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.
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	8
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	5
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	3
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	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
Brownhill	0	2
Adwalton	0	2
Birkenshaw	0	2
Carlinghow	0	2
Drighlington	0	2
Gomersal	0	2
Bruntcliffe	0	2
Batley	1	2
Heckmondwike	0	2
Staincliffe	0	2
Gildersome	0	2
Mill Bridge	0	2
Purlwell	0	1
Hunsworth	0	2
Spenborough	0	3
East Bierley	0	2
Hightown	0	1
Liversedge	0	2
Batley Carr	0	1
Morley	1	3