East Witton, North Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
East Witton settlement with Post Office Bartholomew
Witton, East parish Bartholomew
WITTON (East) a village and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BIRKS AND COLSTERDALE a hamlet Imperial
Cover Bridge hamlet Bartholomew
COVER-BRIDGE a hamlet Imperial
JERVAUX, JERVEAUX, JORVAULX, or JOREVAL a hamlet Imperial
Kilgrim Bridge hamlet Bartholomew
KILGRIM-BRIDGE a hamlet Imperial
NEWSTEAD a hamlet Imperial
Ulshaw Bridge 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
Middleham 3 2
Coverham 2 2
Jervaulx 2 2
Caldbergh 0 2
Thornton Steward 0 2
Colsterdale 0 2
Ellenstring 0 2
Hutton Hang 0 2
East Scrafton 0 2
Agglethorpe 0 2
Harmby 0 2
Spennithorne 0 2
Constable Burton 0 3
Finghall 0 2
Leyburn 0 2
Masham 1 2
Ellingtons 0 2
Melmerby 0 3
Healey 0 3
West Scrafton 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
EAST WITTON 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).
WITTON 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).
WITTON EAST 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.