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The following appear as names for West Bretton. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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BRETTON | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
BRETTON WEST | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
WEST BRETTON | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with West Bretton. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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BRETTON | Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. |
BRETTON WEST | Parish-level Unit (CP/Tn/Ch) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'. |
WEST BRETTON | Parish-level Unit (CP/Tn/Ch) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 520. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with West Bretton, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of West Bretton, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of West Bretton, in Wakefield and West Riding | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11679/names
Date accessed: 19th May 2024