Silkstone, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Silkstone parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew
SILKSTONE a village and a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Coates hamlet Bartholomew
COATES a hamlet Imperial
CRANE-MOOR a place Imperial
Dodworth township and village with railway station Bartholomew
Gilroyd school Bartholomew
Hood Green village Bartholomew
HOOD-GREEN a village Imperial
Hoyland Swaine township Bartholomew
HOYLAND-SWAINE a village and a township Imperial
Huthwaite village Bartholomew
HUTHWAITE a village Imperial
KINSTON-PLACE a hamlet Imperial
MEARSBROUGH a hamlet Imperial
OLD MILL a hamlet Imperial
Ratten Row village Bartholomew
Stainbrough township and village Bartholomew
STAINBROUGH a township-chapelry, with four hamlets Imperial
Thurgoland township and village Bartholomew
THURGOLAND a township-chapelry, with a village Imperial
Wentworth Castle seat 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
Dodworth 0 2
Cawthorne 0 2
Hood Green 0 2
Wentworth Castle 0 2
Thurgoland 0 2
Stainbrough 0 2
Barugh 0 2
Hoyland Swaine 0 2
Oxspring 0 2
Ratten Row 0 2
Gawber 0 2
Kexborough 0 2
Darton 0 2
Huthwaite 0 2
High Hoyland 0 2
Gunthwaite 0 2
Hunshelf 0 2
Penistone 0 2
Mapplewell 0 2
Worsbrough 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
SILKSTONE 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:

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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.
  • 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.