Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Thornhill	town, parish, and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRIESTFIELD, or Briestwhistle	a hamlet	Imperial
Flockton	township	Bartholomew
FLOCKTON	a chapelry	Imperial
Grange Moor	hamlet	Bartholomew
GRANGE-MOOR	a hamlet	Imperial
Middlestown	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
MIDDLESTOWN	a village	Imperial
Midgley	village	Bartholomew
MIDGLEY	a village	Imperial
Millbank	hamlet	Bartholomew
MILLBANK	a hamlet	Imperial
Netherton	village	Bartholomew
NETHERTON	a village	Imperial
Overton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Shitlington	township	Bartholomew
SHITLINGTON	a township, with four villages	Imperial
Whitley, Lower	township	Bartholomew
WHITLEY (Lower)	a township-chapelry, with a village and three hamlets	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 Thornhill 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	Yorkshire: West Riding	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
Lower Whitley	0	2
Whitley Upper	0	2
Dewsbury	8	2
Thornhill Lees	0	2
Middlestown	0	2
Flockton	0	2
Ravensthorpe	0	1
Sitlington	0	2
West Town	0	2
Earlsheaton	0	3
Soothill	0	2
Netherton	0	2
Mirfield	0	2
Horbury Bridge	0	2
Upper Hopton	0	3
Midgley	0	2
South Ossett	0	2
Dewsbury Moor	0	2
Emley	1	2
Lepton	0	2