Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Davy Hall	parish	Bartholomew
Goodramgate, Holy Trinity	parish and township	Bartholomew
Mary Gate St Olave	township	Bartholomew
Minster Yard with Beddern	township	Bartholomew
MINSTER-YARD-WITH-BEDDERN	an extra-parochial place	Imperial
Mint Yard	parish	Bartholomew
MINT-YARD	a liberty	Imperial
St Cuthbert	parish	Bartholomew
St Lawrence	parish	Bartholomew
St Mary Castlegate	parish	Bartholomew
St Saviour	parish	Bartholomew
St Wilfred	township	Bartholomew
YORK	a city, a district, an ainsty, and a diocese	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 York 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	Yorkshire: West Riding	40
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	21
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	9
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	6
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: York and Scarborough	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	5
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	4
George Head	North Riding	4
William Camden	Romans in Britaine (2)	3
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	3
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	3
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	3
William Camden	Saxons, Danes and Normans	2
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	2
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	2
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth	2
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	2
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	2
James Boswell	August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen	1
William Camden	Coins of Britain; The Celts, Picts and Scots	1
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	1
William Camden	Northumberland	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire	1
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	1
Celia Fiennes	Bedfordshire	1
George Head	Hull	1
George Head	Visiting Mull	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	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
Feargus O'Connor	O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839	1
Thomas Pennant	Tamworth to Meriden	1
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	1
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	1
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	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
Micklegate	0	4
Mary Gate	0	2
Holgate	0	2
Bootham	0	1
Walmgate	0	1
Dringhouses	0	2
Middlethorpe	0	2
Acomb	3	2
Clifton	0	2
Fulford	0	3
Knapton	0	2
Rawcliffe	0	2
Bishopthorpe	2	3
Osbaldwick	0	2
Heworth	0	2
Askham Bryan	0	2
Heslington	0	4
Upper Poppleton	0	2
Poppleton	0	2
Huntington	0	2