A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Doncaster. You may be able to find further references to Doncaster in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| DONCASTER | 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 Doncaster.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| BALBY-WITH-HEXTHORPE | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
| Hexthorpe | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| LANGTHWAITE-WITH-TILTS | a township | Imperial |
| Loversall | township | Bartholomew |
| Sandall, Long | township | Bartholomew |
| SANDALL (Long) | a township | Imperial |
| Wheatley | township | Bartholomew |
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 Doncaster 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 11 |
| William Camden | Yorkshire: West Riding | 4 |
| George Head | Selby and Goole | 4 |
| Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire | 2 |
| William Camden | Yorkshire: East and North Ridings | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elmfield | 0 | 1 |
| Carr House | 0 | 1 |
| Don Valley | 0 | 2 |
| Wheatley | 0 | 2 |
| Hexthorpe | 0 | 2 |
| Balby | 0 | 2 |
| Loversall | 0 | 2 |
| Bentley | 0 | 2 |
| Arksey | 0 | 1 |
| Spotbrough | 1 | 2 |
| Warmsworth | 0 | 2 |
| Long Sandall | 0 | 2 |
| Cantley | 0 | 2 |
| Edenthorpe | 0 | 1 |
| Armthorpe | 0 | 2 |
| Wadworth | 0 | 2 |
| Branton | 0 | 2 |
| Kirk Sandall | 0 | 2 |
| Rossington | 1 | 2 |
| Stancill | 0 | 2 |