A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Sefton. You may be able to find further references to Sefton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sefton (or Sephton) | parish and township with railway station | Bartholomew |
| Sephton | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Sefton.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Aintree | township with railway station | Bartholomew |
| Crosby, Little | coastal township | Bartholomew |
| Crosby, or Great Crosby | coastal town and township with railway station | Bartholomew |
| Ford | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| Ince Blundell | township and seat | Bartholomew |
| INCE-BLUNDELL | a village and a township | Imperial |
| LITHERLAND | a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict | Imperial |
| Litherland (or Waterloo) | coastal township | Bartholomew |
| Lunt | township | Bartholomew |
| LUNT | a township | Imperial |
| Netherton | township and village | Bartholomew |
| NETHERTON | a township, with a village | Imperial |
| Orrell and Ford | township | Bartholomew |
| ORRELL and FORD | a township | Imperial |
| SEAFORTH | a village and a chapelry | Imperial |
| Stand Park | seat | Bartholomew |
| Thornton | township | Bartholomew |
| Waterloo with Seaforth | town | Bartholomew |
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 Sefton 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Thornton | 0 | 2 |
| Lunt | 0 | 2 |
| Ford | 0 | 2 |
| Litherland | 0 | 2 |
| Netherton | 0 | 2 |
| Orrell | 0 | 2 |
| Great Crosby | 0 | 3 |
| Blundellsands | 0 | 1 |
| Waterloo | 0 | 3 |
| Ince Blundell | 0 | 2 |
| Little Crosby | 0 | 2 |
| Seaforth | 0 | 2 |
| Bootle | 0 | 2 |
| Maghull | 1 | 2 |
| Aintree | 0 | 2 |
| Altcar | 0 | 2 |
| Hightown | 0 | 2 |
| Lydiate | 0 | 2 |
| Walton Junction | 0 | 2 |
| Melling | 0 | 3 |