Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
RUNCORN	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Acton Grange	township	Bartholomew
ACTON-GRANGE	a township	Imperial
Aston by Sutton	township	Bartholomew
ASTON-BY-SUTTON, or Aston-Sutton	a township chapelry	Imperial
Aston Grange	township	Bartholomew
ASTON-GRANGE	a township	Imperial
Clifton, or Rocksavage	township	Bartholomew
CLIFTON, or Rocksavage	a township	Imperial
Daresbury	township with railway station	Bartholomew
Halton	township and railway station	Bartholomew
HALTON	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Hatton	township	Bartholomew
HATTON	a township	Imperial
Keckwick, or Kekewick	township	Bartholomew
KEKEWICK, or KECKWICK	a township	Imperial
Moore	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
MOORE, or MooR	a village and a township	Imperial
Newton by Daresbury	township and village	Bartholomew
NEWTON-BY-DARESBURY	a township, with avillage	Imperial
Norton	township and village	Bartholomew
NORTON	a village and a township	Imperial
Preston Brook	village with railway station	Bartholomew
PRESTON-BROOK	a village	Imperial
Preston on the Hill	township	Bartholomew
PRESTON-ON-THE-HILL	a township	Imperial
Rocksavage (or Clifton)	township	Bartholomew
Stockham	township	Bartholomew
STOCKHAM	a township	Imperial
STOCKTON-HEATH	a village	Imperial
Sutton	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
SUTTON	a township	Imperial
Thelwall	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
THELWALL	a township-chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Walton Hall	seat	Bartholomew
WALTON (Inferior and Superior)	two townships	Imperial
Walton Inferior and Walton Superior	2 townships	Bartholomew
Weston	township and village	Bartholomew
WESTON	a township, with a village	Imperial
Weston Point	village	Bartholomew
WESTON-POINT	a chapelry, with a village	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 Runcorn 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.
George Head	Liverpool	9
George Head	Warrington and St. Helens	6
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	2
George Head	Cheshire	1
Thomas Pennant	Wybunbury to Darlaston	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
Halton	1	2
Clifton	2	3
Weston	0	2
Weston Point	0	2
Sutton	0	3
Stockham	0	2
Norton	1	2
Widnes	0	2
Appleton	0	2
Preston Brook	0	2
Cuerdley	0	2
Keckwick	0	3
Ditton	0	2
Aston By Sutton	0	3
Farnworth	0	2
Hale	0	2
Preston on the Hill	4	2
Fiddlers Ferry	0	2
Frodsham	2	2
Moore	0	2