Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Castleton parish and township Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Edale township Bartholomew
EDALE a township-chapelry Imperial
Grimesbrook hamlet Bartholomew
Ladybooth hamlet Bartholomew
ODIN MINE a mine Imperial
WINNATS (The) a wild deep chasm, about a mile long 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 Castleton 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 9
George Head The Peak District 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District 3
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: The Peak District 3
Karl Moritz Chapter 12: Derbyshire to Northampton 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 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
Hope 0 2
Edale 0 3
Bradwell 0 2
Peak Forest 1 2
High Peak 13 3
Brough 0 2
Aston 0 2
Hazlebadge 0 2
Thornhill 0 2
Wheston 0 3
Shatton 0 1
Hope Woodlands 0 2
Bamford 0 2
Great Hucklow 0 2
Tideswell 11 2
Abney 0 2
Derwent 0 4
Chapel En le Frith 1 2
Offerton 0 2
Hayfield 0 2