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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Thirsk. You may be able to find further references to Thirsk in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Thirsk | market town, parish and township, with railway station | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Thirsk.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Carlton Miniott | township | Bartholomew | CARLTON-MINIOTT, or Carlton Islebeck | a township-chapelry | Imperial | Hutton, Sand | township | Bartholomew | HUTTON (SAND) | a township chapelry | Imperial | Sand Hutton | township | Bartholomew | Sowerby | township and village | Bartholomew | SOWERBY | a township-chapelry, with a village | Imperial |
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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 Thirsk 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: East and North Ridings | 3 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north | 1 | John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 1 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 1 | John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 1 | John Wesley | 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland | 1 |
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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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Carlton Miniott | 0 | 2 |
Sowerby | 1 | 2 |
Sand Hutton By Thirsk | 3 | 5 |
Thornborough | 0 | 2 |
South Kilvington | 0 | 1 |
Thornton le Street | 0 | 2 |
North Kilvington | 0 | 2 |
Newsham | 0 | 2 |
Bagby | 0 | 2 |
Skipton on Swale | 0 | 3 |
Catton | 0 | 2 |
Upsall | 0 | 2 |
Topcliffe | 3 | 2 |
Dalton | 0 | 2 |
Holme | 0 | 2 |
Knayton | 0 | 2 |
Balk | 0 | 2 |
Kirby Wiske | 0 | 2 |
Newby | 0 | 2 |
Hambleton | 0 | 2 |