Walton on the Hill, Lancashire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Walton railway station Bartholomew
Walton on the Hill town, parish, and township Bartholomew
WALTON-ON-THE-HILL a village and a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BOOTLE-CUM-LINACRE a township and three chapelries Imperial
Everton township Bartholomew
Fazakerley township and railway station Bartholomew
FAZAKERLEY a township Imperial
Formby coastal township and village with railway station Bartholomew
FORMBY a village, a township, and two chapelries Imperial
Gill Moss school Bartholomew
Kirkby township and railway station Bartholomew
KIRKBY a township-chapelry Imperial
Kirkdale township and railway station Bartholomew
KIRKDALE a township and a parochial-chapelry Imperial
Knotty Ash village Bartholomew
KNOTTY-ASH a chapelry Imperial
North Shore (Kirkdale) ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Raven Meols hamlet Bartholomew
Simonswood township Bartholomew
SIMONSWOOD a township Imperial

Travel writing

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

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Croxteth 0 2
Fazakerley 0 2
Merseyside 0 2
Tue Brook 0 1
West Derby 0 4
Walton Junction 0 2
Stoneycroft 0 1
Everton 0 2
Stanley 0 2
Aintree 0 2
Old Swan 0 3
Knotty Ash 0 2
Fairfield 0 2
Bootle 0 2
Kirkdale 0 2
Kensington 0 1
Liverpool 149 5
Orrell 0 2
North Shore 0 1
Broadgreen 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Walton on the Hill. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
WALTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
WALTON ON THE HILL 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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  • 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.