Great Mitton, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Mitton parish Bartholomew
MITTON a parish Imperial
MITTON (GREAT) a township Imperial
MITTON-HENTHORN AND COLDCOTES a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
AIGHTON one of three hamlets forming a township Imperial
BAILEY a hamlet Imperial
Bashall Eaves township Bartholomew
BASHALL-EAVES, or Beckshalgh a township Imperial
Bradford, West township Bartholomew
BRADFORD (West) a township Imperial
CHAIGLEY a hamlet Imperial
Grindleton township and village Bartholomew
HURST-GREEN a village and a chapelry Imperial
Pagefold hamlet Bartholomew
PAGEFOLD a hamlet Imperial
Sawley township and village Bartholomew
STONYHURST a Roman Catholic college Imperial
WADDINGTON a township-chapelry, with a village Imperial

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
Little Mitton 0 2
Henthorn 0 2
Stonyhurst 0 2
Hurst Green 0 3
Whalley 4 2
Chaigley 0 2
Wiswell 0 2
Billington 0 3
Aighton 0 2
Dinckley 0 2
Pendleton 0 2
Bailey 0 2
Clitheroe 1 4
Langho 2 1
Bashall Eaves 0 2
Dutton 0 2
Waddington 0 2
Great Harwood 0 3
Read 0 2
Sabden 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
GREAT MITTON John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MITTON 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).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MITTON GREAT John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MITTON HENTHORN AND COLDCOTES 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.
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