Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aberford	parish	Bartholomew
ABERFORD		Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Parlington	township	Bartholomew
PARLINGTON	a township	Imperial
Sturton Grange	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 Aberford 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 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	3
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	2
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	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
Parlington	0	2
Elmet	0	1
Lotherton	0	2
Sturton Grange	0	2
Barwick in Elmet	1	2
Hazlewood	0	2
Micklefield	0	2
Lead	0	1
Scholes	0	2
Austhorpe	0	2
Huddleston	1	2
Saxton	0	2
Bramham	0	3
Newthorpe	0	2
Garforth	1	2
Manston	0	2
Wothersome	0	2
Thorner	0	2
Towton	7	2
Barkston	0	4