Kirk Leavington, North Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kirk Leavington parish and township Bartholomew
KIRK-LEAVINGTON a township and a parish Imperial
Leavington, Kirk Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Castle Leavington township Bartholomew
CASTLE-LEAVINGTON a township Imperial
Picton (or Pickton) township and railway station Bartholomew
Worsall, Low township Bartholomew
WORSALL (Low) 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
Yarm 6 3
Castle Leavington 0 2
Picton 0 3
Low Worsall 0 2
Crathorne 0 2
Aislaby 0 2
Egglescliffe 0 3
Hilton 0 2
High Worsall 0 2
Ingleby Barwick 0 2
Middleton upon Leven 0 2
Newsham 0 2
Appleton Wiske 0 2
Rudby in Cleveland 0 2
Preston Junction 0 1
Hutton Rudby 1 2
Maltby 0 2
East Rounton 0 3
West Rounton 0 2
Girsby 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
KIRK LEAVINGTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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).
LEAVINGTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
LEAVINGTON KIRK John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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