Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MATLOCK	a village, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial
MATLOCK-BATH	a village and a chapelry	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Matlock.

Place	Type of entry	Source
MATLOCK-BANK	a hamlet	Imperial
MATLOCK-BRIDGE	a hamlet	Imperial
RIBER	a hamlet	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 Matlock 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.
Karl Moritz	Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire	8
George Head	The Peak District	7
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District	5
Karl Moritz	Chapter 12: Derbyshire to Northampton	3
George Head	The West Riding	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
Karl Moritz	Introduction	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
Snitterton	0	2
Matlock Bridge	0	1
Matlock Bank	0	1
South Darley	0	2
Wensley	0	2
Darley	0	2
Bonsall	0	2
North Darley	0	2
Tansley	0	2
Cromford	0	4
Birchover	0	2
Middleton By Wirksworth	0	2
Lea	0	2
Ible	0	2
Winster	0	2
Stanton	0	3
Lea Bridge	0	1
Dethick	0	2
Ivonbrook Grange	0	2
Rowtor	0	2