Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
FRODSHAM	a small town, a township, a lordship, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alvanley	township	Bartholomew
ALVANLEY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Bradley	hamlet	Bartholomew
Helsby	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
HELSBY		Imperial
Kingsley	township and village	Bartholomew
KINGSLEY	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Manley	township	Bartholomew
MANLEY	a township	Imperial
Newton by Frodsham	township and village	Bartholomew
NEWTON-BY-FRODSHAM	a township, with a village	Imperial
Norley	township and village	Bartholomew
NORLEY	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Overton	hamlet	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 Frodsham 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	Shropshire and Cheshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	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
Newton By Frodsham	0	2
Helsby	0	2
Alvanley	0	2
Kingsley	1	2
Kingswood	0	2
Clifton	2	3
Sutton	0	3
Manley	0	2
Weaver Vale	0	2
Weston	0	2
Aston By Sutton	0	3
Hapsford	0	2
Aston Grange	0	2
Weston Point	0	2
Norley	0	2
Elton	0	2
Mouldsworth	0	2
Dunham on the Hill	0	2
Stockham	0	2
Runcorn	19	2