Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
KESWICK	a town, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district	Imperial

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 Keswick 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	Workington and the Lake District	4
William Camden	Cumberland	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
Arthur Young	21st to 30th September 1776: Cork and Kerry	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
Friars Crag	0	2
Crosthwaite	0	2
Lords Island	0	2
Portinscale	0	2
Castlerigg	0	3
Ormathwaite	0	2
Briery	0	1
Applethwaite	0	2
Druids Circle	0	2
Underskiddaw	0	2
Braithwaite	0	2
Newlands	0	2
St John in the Vale	0	2
Coledale	0	2
Above Derwent	0	1
Wanthwaite	0	1
Thornthwaite	0	2
Lodore	0	2
Grange	0	3
Skiddaw	2	3