Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
GARSTANG a small town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Barnacre with Bonds township Bartholomew
BARNACRE-WITH-BONDS a township Imperial
BARTON a township Imperial
Bilsborrow township Bartholomew
BILSBORROW a township Imperial
Cabus township Bartholomew
CABUS, or Cabas a township Imperial
Catterall township with railway station Bartholomew
CATTERALL a township Imperial
Church Town hamlet Bartholomew
Claughton township Bartholomew
CLAUGHTON a township Imperial
Cleveley township Bartholomew
CLEVELEY a township Imperial
FORTON a township Imperial
Holleth township Bartholomew
HOLLETH a township Imperial
Kirkland township Bartholomew
Nateby township Bartholomew
NATEBY a township Imperial
Pilling township and village with railway station Bartholomew
PILLING a village and a town ship-chapelry Imperial
Scorton ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew
SCORTON a village Imperial
SHIRESHEAD, or Shirehead a chapelry Imperial
Winmarleigh township and railway station Bartholomew
WINMARLEIGH a township Imperial
WYERSDALE (Nether) a township Imperial
Wyresdale (or Wyersdale), Nether township Bartholomew

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 Garstang 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.
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire 2
William Adams On Tramp 1
Thomas Pennant September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire 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
Bonds 0 1
Cabus 0 2
Nateby 0 2
Kirkland 0 2
Winmarleigh 0 2
Barnacre 0 2
Scorton 0 2
Wyre 0 2
Catterall 0 2
Tarnacre 0 2
Calder Vale 0 2
Forton 0 2
Cleveley 0 2
Shireshead 0 2
Nether Wyresdale 0 2
Claughton 0 2
Amounderness 0 2
St Michael on Wyre 0 2
Brock 0 2
Holleth 0 2