Gisburn, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Gisburn parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew
GISBURN a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
GISBURN-FOREST a township Imperial
Horton township Bartholomew
HORTON a township Imperial
Howgill hamlet Bartholomew
HOWGILL a hamlet Imperial
Martintop hamlet Bartholomew
MARTIN-TOP a hamlet Imperial
Middop township Bartholomew
MIDDOP a township Imperial
NAPPA a township Imperial
Newsholme township and railway station Bartholomew
NEWSHOLME, or Newsome a township Imperial
Owlshaw hamlet Bartholomew
OWLSHAW a hamlet Imperial
Paythorne township Bartholomew
PAYTHORNE a township Imperial
Rimmington township and railway station Bartholomew
RIMMINGTON a township Imperial
Swinden township Bartholomew
Todber 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
Paythorne 0 2
Newsholme 0 2
Horton 0 2
Bolton By Bowland 0 2
West Halton 0 2
Bracewell 0 2
Nappa 1 2
Sawley 0 2
Howgill 0 2
Rimington 0 2
Deepdale Head 0 2
Swinden 0 2
Middop 0 2
Tosside 0 2
Wigglesworth 0 2
Grindleton 0 3
Barnoldswick 0 4
Twiston 0 2
Long Preston 0 2
Brogden 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
GISBURN 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.