Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WHITEHAVEN	a town, a township, four chapelries, and a district	Imperial
WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
WHITEHAVEN, CLEATOR, AND EGREMONT RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
WHITEHAVEN JUNCTION RAILWAY	a railway	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 Whitehaven 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	North Lancashire	5
George Head	Workington and the Lake District	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	3
George Head	Cheshire	2
George Head	Whitehaven	2
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	2
Arthur Young	21st to 31st July 1776: Down, Armagh and Antrim	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	1
George Head	Liverpool	1
George Head	Arriving in the Isle of Man	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	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
Corkickle	0	2
Preston Quarter	0	2
Hensingham	0	2
Parton	0	2
Moresby	1	2
Sandwith	0	2
Weddicar	0	2
Rottington	0	2
Cleator Moor	0	2
Frizington	0	2
Egremont	2	3
Harrington	0	2
Distington	0	2
Arlecdon	0	2
Eskett	0	1
Salter	0	2
Wilton	0	2
Lowside Quarter	0	2
Haile	0	3
Winscales	0	2