Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
OTLEY	a 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 Otley.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Baildon	village with railway station	Bartholomew
BAILDON	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Baildon Hill	a hill with ancient entrenchments	Bartholomew
Bramhope	township	Bartholomew
BRAMHOPE	a township-chapelry	Imperial
BURLEY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Burley-in-Wharfedale	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
Clifton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Denton	township	Bartholomew
DENTON	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Esholt	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
ESHOLT	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Farnley	township	Bartholomew
FARNLEY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Hawksworth	township and village	Bartholomew
HAWKSWORTH	a township, with a village	Imperial
Lindley	township	Bartholomew
LINDLEY	a township	Imperial
MENSTONE	a township, with a village	Imperial
Newall with Clifton	township	Bartholomew
NEWALL-WITH-CLIFTON	a township	Imperial
Pool	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
POOLE	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Timble, Little	township	Bartholomew
TIMBLE (Little)	a township	Imperial
WEETON	a township-chapelry, with a r station	Imperial
Wharfeside	seat	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 Otley 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
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	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
Newall	0	2
Wharfedale	0	2
Guiseley	0	2
Farnley	0	2
Carlton	0	2
Clifton	0	2
Pool	0	2
Menston	0	2
Leathley	0	2
Weston	0	2
Yeadon	0	2
Bramhope	0	2
Burley in Wharfedale	0	2
Esholt	0	2
Hawksworth	0	2
Lindley	0	2
Askwith	0	1
Rawdon	0	2
Castley	0	2
Stainburn	0	2