Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CHESTERFIELD	a town, 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 Chesterfield.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Calow	township	Bartholomew
CALOW	a township	Imperial
Dunston	hamlet	Bartholomew
Grassmoor	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hasland	township	Bartholomew
HASLAND	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Holymoorside	village	Bartholomew
HOLYMOORSIDE	a village	Imperial
NORMANTON-TEMPLE	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Normanton Temple (or North Normanton)	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
STONE-GRAVELS	a hamlet	Imperial
Tapton	township	Bartholomew
TAPTON	a township	Imperial
Temple Normanton	township	Bartholomew
Walton	township and village	Bartholomew
WALTON	a township	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 Chesterfield 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	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	3
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District	2
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Thomas Pennant	Stone to Stafford	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Newbold	0	3
Whittington	0	5
Tapton	0	2
Scarsdale	0	2
Brimington	0	2
Cutthorpe	0	2
New Whittington	0	2
Brampton	0	3
Hasland	0	2
Calow	0	2
Walton	1	2
Holymoorside	0	2
Barrow Hill	0	1
Wingerworth	0	2
Unstone	0	2
Barlow	0	3
Cowley	0	2
Staveley	1	2
Temple Normanton	0	3
Duckmanton	0	2