Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ainsworth	township and ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Cockey	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 Ainsworth 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	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	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
Harwood	0	2
Breightmet	0	2
Walshaw	0	1
Radcliffe	1	2
Little Lever	0	3
Tonge	0	2
Woolfold	0	1
Elton	0	2
Darcy Lever	0	3
Lever Bridge	0	2
Bradshaw	0	2
Haulgh	0	2
Tottington	0	6
Prestolee	0	1
Bury	6	2
Stoneclough	0	2
Ringley	0	2
Great Lever	0	2
Outwood	0	1
Astley Bridge	0	2