Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRAMPTON	a small town, a township, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Crooked Holme	hamlet	Bartholomew
Easby	village	Bartholomew
EASBY	a township	Imperial
Naworth	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
NAWORTH	a township	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 Brampton 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	Cumberland	4
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	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
Milton	0	2
Farlam	0	2
Naworth	0	2
Talkin	0	2
Lanercost	0	2
Castlesteads	0	2
Hayton	0	2
Burtholme	0	2
Walton	0	2
Newtown	0	2
Castle Carrock	0	2
How Mill	0	2
Hurtleton	0	2
Fenton	0	2
Nether Denton	0	2
Irthington	1	2
Eskdale	0	5
Faugh	0	2
Newby	0	2
Heads Nook	0	1