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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dewsbury. You may be able to find further references to Dewsbury in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | DEWSBURY | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Dewsbury.
Place | Type of entry | Source | BATLEY-CARR | a hamlet and a chapelry | Imperial | Chidswell | hamlet | Bartholomew | CHIDSWELL | a hamlet | Imperial | Clifton | village | Bartholomew | CRICKENLY | a hamlet | Imperial | Daw Green | hamlet | Bartholomew | DAW-GREEN | a hamlet | Imperial | Dewsbury Moor | ecclesiastical district and estate | Bartholomew | DEWSBURY MOOR | a chapelry | Imperial | Earls Heaton | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | EARLS-HEATON | a chapelry | Imperial | Gawthorpe | hamlet | Bartholomew | GAWTHORPE | Imperial | Hanging Heaton | ecclesiastical district and hamlet | Bartholomew | HANGING-HEATON | a hamlet and a chapelry | Imperial | Hartshead | township | Bartholomew | HARTSHEAD | a hamlet and a chapelry | Imperial | Kirklees | village | Bartholomew | KIRKLEES | a village | Imperial | OSSETT | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | OSSETT (South) | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | OSSETT-STREET | a hamlet | Imperial | Ossett (with Gawthorpe) | town and township | Bartholomew | OSSETT-WITH-GAWTHORPE | a township and a sub-district | Imperial | Soothill | township | Bartholomew | South Ossett | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | West Town | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | WEST TOWN | a chapelry | 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 Dewsbury 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. | George Head | The West Riding | 3 | William Camden | Yorkshire: West Riding | 1 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East | 1 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester | 1 | George Head | Hull | 1 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 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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Thornhill Lees | 0 | 2 |
West Town | 0 | 2 |
Earlsheaton | 0 | 3 |
Soothill | 0 | 2 |
Ravensthorpe | 0 | 1 |
Thornhill | 1 | 2 |
Dewsbury Moor | 0 | 2 |
Lower Whitley | 0 | 2 |
Batley Carr | 0 | 1 |
Hanging Heaton | 0 | 2 |
Middlestown | 0 | 2 |
Gawthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Mirfield | 0 | 2 |
Purlwell | 0 | 1 |
Ossett | 0 | 3 |
Staincliffe | 0 | 2 |
South Ossett | 0 | 2 |
Whitley Upper | 0 | 2 |
Horbury Bridge | 0 | 2 |
Heckmondwike | 0 | 2 |