Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HELMSLEY	a small 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 Helmsley.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beadlam	township	Bartholomew
BEADLAM	a township	Imperial
Carlton	hamlet	Bartholomew
CARLTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Crossett	hamlet	Bartholomew
CROSSETT	a hamlet	Imperial
Easterside	district	Bartholomew
EASTERSIDE	a division of Bilsdale township	Imperial
Harum	township	Bartholomew
HARUM, or HAROME	a chapelry	Imperial
Kirkham	hamlet	Bartholomew
Laskill Pasture	township	Bartholomew
LASKILL-PASTURE	a township	Imperial
Pockley	township and village	Bartholomew
POCKLEY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Rivaulx (or Rievaulx)	township	Bartholomew
RIVAULX, or Rievaulx	a township	Imperial
Sproxton	township	Bartholomew
SPROXTON	a township	Imperial
Urra	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 Helmsley 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	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	2

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
Laskill Pasture	0	2
Pockley	0	2
Bilsdale	0	5
Rievaulx	0	2
Skiplam	0	2
Beadlam	0	2
Bransdale	0	5
Murton	0	2
Fadmoor	0	2
Old Byland	0	2
Farndale Low Quarter	0	2
Dale Town	0	2
Hawnby	0	2
Nawton	0	2
Duncombe Park	0	2
Farndale West Side	0	2
Gillamoor	0	2
Scawton	0	2
Cold Kirby	0	3
Arden	0	2