Wath upon Dearne, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Wath upon Dearne town, parish, and township Bartholomew
WATH-UPON-DEARNE a small town, a township, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BARLEY-HALL a hamlet Imperial
Barrow hamlet Bartholomew
BARROW a hamlet Imperial
BIRDWELL-FLAT a hamlet Imperial
BRAMPTON-BIERLOW a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Broadcarr hamlet Bartholomew
BROADCARR a hamlet Imperial
Coley Lane hamlet Bartholomew
COLEY-LANE a hamlet Imperial
Cortwood hamlet Bartholomew
Elsecar ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
ELSECAR a hamlet and a chapelry Imperial
Foxlands hamlet Bartholomew
Harley hamlet with school Bartholomew
Hoober hamlet Bartholomew
HOOBER a hamlet Imperial
Hoyland village with railway station Bartholomew
Hoyland Lane End hamlet Bartholomew
Hoyland, Nether township Bartholomew
HOYLAND (NETHER) a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Hoyland, Upper hamlet Bartholomew
KILNHURST a village Imperial
LEE-BROOK a hamlet Imperial
Melton, West village Bartholomew
MELTON (WEST) a village Imperial
Newmill hamlet Bartholomew
NEWMILL a hamlet Imperial
Stubbin hamlet Bartholomew
SWINTON a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Wentworth township and village Bartholomew
WENTWORTH a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
West Melton village Bartholomew
Wharncliffe village Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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 Historical Gazetteer
West Melton 0 3
Brampton Bierlow 0 2
Swinton 0 2
Adwick upon Dearne 0 2
Bolton upon Dearne 0 2
Birdwell Flat 0 2
Billingley 0 2
Rawmarsh 0 2
Dearne 0 2
Millhouses 0 2
Strafforth and Tickhill 0 2
Kilnhurst 0 2
Hemingfield 0 2
Goldthorpe 0 2
Wombwell 0 2
Mexborough 0 2
Elsecar 0 2
Denaby 0 2
Park Gate 0 2
Darfield 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Wath upon Dearne. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
WATH UPON DEARNE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

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