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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Skipton. You may be able to find further references to Skipton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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SKIPTON | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
SKIPTON AND WHARFDALE RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Skipton.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Barden | township | Bartholomew |
BARDEN | a township | Imperial |
BEAMSLEY | a township | Imperial |
Bolton Abbey | township | Bartholomew |
BOLTON-ABBEY, or East Bolton | a township chapelry | Imperial |
Draughton | township | Bartholomew |
DRAUGHTON | a township | Imperial |
Drebley | hamlet | Bartholomew |
DREBLEY | a hamlet | Imperial |
Eastby | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Embsay with Eastby | township | Bartholomew |
EMBSAY-WITH-EASTBY | a township and a chapelry | Imperial |
Halton, East | township | Bartholomew |
HALTON (EAST) | a Township | Imperial |
Hazlewood and Storiths | township | Bartholomew |
Stirton with Thorlby | township | Bartholomew |
STIRTON-WITH-THORLBY | a township | Imperial |
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 Skipton 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. |
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William Camden | Yorkshire: West Riding | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 1 |
John Wesley | 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost | 1 |
Thomas Pennant | Gorhambury and Verulamium | 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 |
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Embsay | 0 | 2 |
Bradleys Both | 0 | 2 |
Stirton | 0 | 2 |
Eastby | 0 | 1 |
Thorlby | 0 | 1 |
Halton East | 0 | 2 |
Cononley | 0 | 2 |
Draughton | 0 | 2 |
Farnhill | 0 | 2 |
Carleton | 0 | 2 |
Kildwick | 0 | 2 |
Glusburn | 0 | 2 |
Broughton | 0 | 3 |
Silsden | 0 | 2 |
Cross Hills | 0 | 2 |
Bolton Abbey | 1 | 2 |
Elslack | 0 | 2 |
Eastburn | 0 | 2 |
Flasby | 0 | 2 |
Addingham | 0 | 2 |