Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HARROGATE	a town, two chapelries, and a sub-district	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 Harrogate 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.
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: York and Scarborough	6
Robert Gammage	Travelling in the north in 1842	4
George Borrow	Introduction; Norfolk to Chester	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire	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
Low Harrogate	0	1
Starbeck	0	2
Bilton	0	3
Pannal	0	2
Beckwith	0	2
Killinghall	0	2
Follifoot	0	2
Conyngham House	0	2
Scotton	0	2
Knaresborough	13	2
Nidd	1	5
Plompton	0	3
Ripley	4	2
Scriven	0	2
North Rigton	0	2
Kirkby Overblow	0	2
Brearton	0	2
Haverah Park	0	2
Spofforth	0	2
Farnham	0	2