Rashcliffe, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ecclesfield parish and township with railway station Bartholomew
ECCLESFIELD a township, a sub-district, and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aldwark seat and hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
ALDWARK a hamlet Imperial
Bell Houses hamlet Bartholomew
BELL-HOUSES a hamlet Imperial
Birley Carr hamlet Bartholomew
BIRLEY-CARR a hamlet Imperial
Bolsterstone ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
BOLSTERSTONE a chapelry Imperial
Bradfield township and village Bartholomew
BRADFIELD a village, two hamlets, a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict Imperial
Bradfield, Low village Bartholomew
Brightholmlee, Great hamlet Bartholomew
BRUCKEN-HILL a hamlet Imperial
Burncross hamlet Bartholomew
BURNCROSS a hamlet Imperial
Butterthwaite hamlet Bartholomew
Chapeltown ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
CHAPELTOWN a chapelry Imperial
DALTON a township Imperial
Deepcar village with railway station Bartholomew
Elm hamlet Bartholomew
ELM a hamlet Imperial
Fairest village Bartholomew
Green village Bartholomew
Green hamlet Bartholomew
Greenhead hamlet Bartholomew
GREENOSIDE, or GRENOSIDE a large village Imperial
Grenoside village Bartholomew
Hartley Brook hamlet Bartholomew
Hesley hamlet Bartholomew
HESLEY a hamlet Imperial
High Green village Bartholomew
HIGH-GREEN a village Imperial
HOLDSWORTH a village Imperial
Holdworth village Bartholomew
Lane End hamlet Bartholomew
Lapwater hamlet Bartholomew
MIDHOPE a chapelry Imperial
Moorwood village Bartholomew
MOORWOOD a hamlet Imperial
Mortomley village Bartholomew
MORTOMLEY a hamlet Imperial
NETHERSHIRE a village Imperial
ONESACRE a hamlet Imperial
Oughtibridge ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew
OUGHTIBRIDGE a village and a chapelry Imperial
Potters Hill village Bartholomew
POTTERS-HILL a village Imperial
SHIRE-GREEN a village Imperial
Smallfield village Bartholomew
Southey village Bartholomew
Stannington ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
STANNINGTON a chapelry, with a village and several hamlets Imperial
Thompson Hill village Bartholomew
THOMPSON-HILL a village Imperial
THORPE-HESLEY a chapelry Imperial
Ughill village Bartholomew
Wadsley ecclesiastical district and railway station Bartholomew
Whitley village Bartholomew
Wincobank village with railway station Bartholomew
Wisewood hamlet Bartholomew
Worrall 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
Oughtibridge 0 2
Wharncliffe 0 2
Hallamshire 0 2
Grenoside 0 2
Wadsley 0 2
Whitley 0 2
Wortley 0 2
Potters Hill 0 2
Deepcar 0 1
Bolsterstone 0 2
Thompson Hill 0 2
Hillsborough 0 1
Dungworth 0 2
Southey 0 2
Stocksbridge 0 1
High Green 0 2
Malin Bridge 0 1
Mortomley 0 2
Owlerton 0 2
Lane End 0 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
ECCLESFIELD 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).
ECLESFELT 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.