Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Lowther	river	Bartholomew
Lowther	parish	Bartholomew
LOWTHER (THE)	a river	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hackthorpe	village	Bartholomew
HACKTHORPE	a township	Imperial
Melkinthorpe	village	Bartholomew
MELKINTHORPE	a township	Imperial
WHALE	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 Lowther 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	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	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
Hackthorpe	0	2
Helton	0	2
Clifton	0	2
Great Strickland	1	3
Thrimby	0	2
Knipe	0	2
Askham	0	2
Winder Low	0	2
Sockbridge	0	2
Yanwath	0	2
Newby	0	2
West Ward	0	2
Mayburgh	0	2
Eamont Bridge	0	2
Brougham	4	2
Morland	0	2
Cliburn	0	2
Pooley Bridge	0	2
Carleton	0	2
Dalemain	0	2