Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
PICKERING	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a wapentake	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Goathland	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
GOATHLAND, or Goatland	a chapelry	Imperial
Kingthorpe	township	Bartholomew
KINGTHORPE	a township	Imperial
Marishes	township and railway station	Bartholomew
MARISHES	a township	Imperial
NEWTON	a chapelry	Imperial
Newton (or Newton upon Rawcliff)	township and village	Bartholomew
Newton upon Rawcliff	village	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 Pickering 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	4
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	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
Cawthorn	0	2
Newton	0	3
Aislaby	0	2
Kingthorpe	0	2
Wrelton	0	2
Cropton	0	2
Farmanby	0	2
Levisham	0	2
Middleton	0	1
Ellerburn	0	2
Thornton Dale	0	3
Appleton le Moors	0	2
Sinnington	0	2
Lockton	0	1
Thornton Risebrough	0	2
Marton	0	2
Killingnoble Scar	0	2
Allerston	0	2
Wilton	0	2
Spaunton	0	2