Bossall, North Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bossall parish Bartholomew
BOSSALL a township and a parish Imperial
Butter Crambe Bartholomew
BUTTER-CRAMBE a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Claxton township Bartholomew
CLAXTON a township Imperial
Harton township Bartholomew
HARTON a township Imperial
Hutton, Sand township Bartholomew
HUTTON (SAND) a township and a chapelry Imperial
Sand Hutton township 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
Sand Hutton By Bossall 0 2
Skirpenbeck 0 2
Claxton 0 2
Upper Helmsley 0 2
Stamford Bridge 3 3
Scrayingham 0 2
Harton 0 2
Gate Helmsley 0 2
Full Sutton 0 3
Leppington 0 2
Barton le Willows 0 2
Howsham 0 2
Crambe 0 2
Catton 0 2
Bugthorpe 0 2
Youlthorpe 0 2
Flaxton 0 2
Warthill 0 2
Gowthorpe 0 1
Acklam 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BOSSALL 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).
BUTTER CRAMBE 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:

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  • 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.