Arncliffe, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Arncliffe parish and township Bartholomew
ARNCLIFFE a township and a subdistrict Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Amerdale an upland vale Bartholomew
Beckermonds locality Bartholomew
BEGGARMONDS a hamlet Imperial
Buckden township Bartholomew
BUCKDEN a township Imperial
Cray hamlet Bartholomew
CRAY a hamlet Imperial
Dearnbrook hamlet Bartholomew
Deepdale hamlet Bartholomew
DEEPDALE a hamlet Imperial
Foxup hamlet Bartholomew
FOXUP a hamlet Imperial
Halton Gill township Bartholomew
Hawkswick township Bartholomew
Hesleden hamlet Bartholomew
HESLEDEN a hamlet Imperial
Hubberholme ecclesiastical district and hamlet Bartholomew
HUBBERHOLME a hamlet and a chapelry Imperial
Litton township Bartholomew
Yockenthwaite hamlet 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
Litton 0 2
Halton Gill 0 2
Hubberholme 0 2
Buckden 0 2
Deepdale 0 2
Pen Y Ghent 1 2
Hawkswick 0 2
Kettlewell 0 2
Bishopdale 0 2
Horton in Ribblesdale 0 3
Bainbridge 1 2
Stalling Busk 0 2
Stainforth 0 2
Great Whernside 0 3
Craven 5 2
Kilnsey 0 2
Bordley 0 1
Langcliffe 0 2
Malham 0 4
Gordale Scar 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Arncliffe. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
ARNCLIFFE 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).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.