Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ferrybridge	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
FERRYBRIDGE	a village	Imperial
Ferry Frystone	parish and township	Bartholomew
Frystone, Ferry	parish	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 Ferrybridge 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.
George Head	Selby and Goole	3
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	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
Water Frystone	0	2
Monkhill	0	2
Brotherton	4	2
Castleford	14	2
Sutton	0	2
Glass Houghton	0	3
Fairburn	0	3
Pontefract	14	5
Knottingley	6	2
Byram	0	2
Burton Salmon	0	2
Ledsham	0	2
Ledston	0	2
Whitwood Mere	0	1
Tanshelf	0	2
Carleton	0	2
Allerton Bywater	0	2
Lumby	0	1
Whitwood	0	2
Ackton	0	3