Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HUDDERSFIELD	a town	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BIRCHAM-CLIFFE	a hamlet	Imperial
Bradley	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
Dark Lane	hamlet	Bartholomew
DARK-LANE	a hamlet	Imperial
DOD-LEE	a hamlet	Imperial
Fartown	hamlet	Bartholomew
FARTOWN	a hamlet	Imperial
Golcar	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
Hill Top	hamlet	Bartholomew
HILL-TOP	a hamlet	Imperial
Hirst	hamlet	Bartholomew
HIRST	a hamlet	Imperial
LINDLEY	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Lindley cum Quarmby	township	Bartholomew
Longwood	township and railway station	Bartholomew
LONGWOOD	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Marsden In Huddersfield	township	Bartholomew
MARSH-WITH-PADDOCK	a hamlet	Imperial
OAKS	a hamlet	Imperial
Paddock	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
PADDOCK	a chapelry	Imperial
QUARMBY-CLIFFE	a hamlet	Imperial
Scammonden	township and village	Bartholomew
SCAMMONDEN, or Dean-Head	a township-chapelry	Imperial
WOODHOUSE	a chapelry	Imperial
Woodhouse with Bradley	ecclesiastical district	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 Huddersfield 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	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	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
Rashcliffe	0	2
Paddock	0	2
Mold Green	0	2
Woodhouse	0	2
Longwood	0	2
Lindley	0	3
Newsome	0	2
Dalton	0	2
Fixby	0	2
Birchencliffe	0	2
Kirklees	0	2
Berry Brow	0	2
Milnsbridge	0	2
Armitage Bridge	0	2
Waterloo	0	2
Netherton	0	2
Cowmes	0	2
Rastrick	0	2
Lockwood	0	2
Bradley	0	2