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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wakefield. You may be able to find further references to Wakefield in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | WAKEFIELD | a town, a township, a parish, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Wakefield.
Place | Type of entry | Source | ALVERTHORPE | a village, a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict | Imperial | Alverthorpe with Thornes | township with railway station | Bartholomew | Fanshaw | hamlet | Bartholomew | FANSHAW | a hamlet | Imperial | Horbury | township and village with railway station | Bartholomew | Horbury Bridge | village | Bartholomew | HORBURY-BRIDGE | a village | Imperial | Kirkham Gate | Bartholomew | KIRKHAM GATE | a hamlet | Imperial | LAKE-LOCK | a hamlet | Imperial | LINGWELL-GATE | a hamlet | Imperial | Lofthouse Gate | hamlet | Bartholomew | LOFTHOUSE-GATE | a hamlet | Imperial | MOORHOUSE | a hamlet | Imperial | Newton | hamlet | Bartholomew | NEWTON | a hamlet | Imperial | OUTWOOD | a chapelry | Imperial | SILCOATES | a hamlet | Imperial | Thornes | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | THORNES | a chapelry | Imperial | Westgate Common | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Wrenthorpe | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | WRENTHORPE | a hamlet, with a r station | Imperial |
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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 Wakefield 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. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 12 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle | 7 | George Head | The West Riding | 6 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 4 | George Head | Selby and Goole | 4 | William Camden | Yorkshire: West Riding | 3 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland | 3 | William Camden | Dorset and Somerset | 1 | William Camden | Huntingdon and Northampton | 1 | William Camden | Yorkshire: East and North Ridings | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north | 1 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 1 | George Head | Leeds | 1 | George Head | East Riding | 1 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 1 | Thomas Pennant | In St Albans | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Tyringham to Woburn | 1 |
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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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Thornes | 0 | 2 |
Agbrigg | 0 | 3 |
Lupset | 0 | 1 |
Heath | 0 | 2 |
Alverthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Sandal Magna | 3 | 3 |
Horbury Junction | 0 | 1 |
Wrenthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Horbury | 0 | 2 |
Crigglestone | 0 | 2 |
Stanley | 0 | 2 |
Kirkhamgate | 0 | 2 |
Chapelthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Outwood | 0 | 2 |
Walton | 10 | 2 |
Crofton | 0 | 2 |
Chevet | 0 | 2 |
South Ossett | 0 | 2 |
Warmfield | 0 | 2 |
Newland | 0 | 2 |