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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Chester. You may be able to find further references to Chester in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Abbey Precincts | extra-parochial district | Bartholomew | CHESTER | a city and two sub-districts | Imperial | CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Chester.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Blacon-cum-Crabhall | township | Bartholomew | LACHE (THE) | an outlying part of St. Mary-on-the-Hill parish | Imperial | LACHE-WITH-SALTNEY | a chapelry | Imperial | Lea Newbold | township | Bartholomew | Marlston-cum-Lache | township | Bartholomew | Molllington Banastre (or Little Mollington) | township | Bartholomew | Moston | township | Bartholomew | Saighton | township and village | Bartholomew | Upton | township | Bartholomew | Wervin | township | Bartholomew |
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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 Chester 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.
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 |
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Spital Boughton | 0 | 2 |
Lache | 0 | 3 |
Bache | 0 | 2 |
Newton By Chester | 0 | 2 |
Blacon | 0 | 2 |
Saltney | 0 | 2 |
Claverton | 0 | 2 |
Hoole | 0 | 2 |
Great Boughton | 3 | 2 |
Upton By Chester | 0 | 3 |
Marlston Cum Lache | 0 | 2 |
Little Mollington | 0 | 2 |
Huntington | 0 | 2 |
Crabwall | 0 | 1 |
Moston | 0 | 2 |
Little Saughall | 0 | 2 |
Littleton | 0 | 2 |
Eccleston | 0 | 2 |
Great Mollington | 0 | 5 |
Rowton | 0 | 2 |