Long Preston, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Long Preston small town, parish, and township with railway station Bartholomew
PRESTON (Long) 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 Long Preston.

Place Type of entry Source
Deepdale Head hamlet Bartholomew
DEEPDALE-HEAD a hamlet Imperial
Halton, West township Bartholomew
HALTON (WEST) a township Imperial
Hellifield township and railway station Bartholomew
HELLIFIELD a township Imperial
RATHMELL a township, with a village Imperial
Wigglesworth township Bartholomew
WIGGLESWORTH a township 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
Deepdale Head 0 2
Staincliffe and Ewcross 0 2
Hellifield 0 2
West Halton 0 2
Wigglesworth 0 2
Swinden 0 2
Otterburn 0 2
Settle 1 2
Rathmell 0 2
Airton 0 2
Nappa 1 2
Paythorne 0 2
Gisburn Forest 0 1
Scosthrop 0 1
Tosside 0 2
Newsholme 0 2
Coniston Cold 0 3
Attermire 0 2
Kirkby Malham 0 4
Giggleswick 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
LONG PRESTON 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).
PRESTON John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
PRESTON LONG 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.