Kirkburton, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kirkburton manufacturing town, parish, and township, with railway station Bartholomew
KIRKBURTON 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 Kirkburton.

Place Type of entry Source
Barnside hamlet Bartholomew
BARNSIDE a hamlet Imperial
Burton, High village Bartholomew
Cartworth township and town Bartholomew
CARTWORTH a township Imperial
FOOLSTONE, or Fulstone a township Imperial
Foster Place hamlet Bartholomew
Fulstone township Bartholomew
Green Grove hamlet Bartholomew
GREEN GROVE a hamlet Imperial
HEPWORTH a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Highburton village Bartholomew
Hollingreave hamlet Bartholomew
HOLLINGREAVE a hamlet Imperial
Hollinhouse hamlet Bartholomew
HOLLINHOUSE a hamlet Imperial
LINFIT a hamlet Imperial
MEAL-HILL a hamlet Imperial
NEWMILL a village, a chapelry, and a sub-district Imperial
Paddock hamlet Bartholomew
PADDOCK a hamlet Imperial
ROYDHOUSE a hamlet Imperial
Scholes small town Bartholomew
SCHOLES a hamlet Imperial
Shelley town and township Bartholomew
SHELLEY a scattered village and a chapelry Imperial
Shepley small town and township with railway station Bartholomew
SHEPLEY a township-chapelry, with a village Imperial
Thunderbridge hamlet Bartholomew
Thurstonland township Bartholomew
THURSTONLAND a township-chapelry, with a village Imperial
Woodhouse village Bartholomew
Wooldale township 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
Highburton 0 2
Highgate Lane 0 2
Lepton 0 2
Cowmes 0 2
Shelley 0 2
Gawthorpe 0 2
Farnley Tyas 0 2
Thurstonland 0 2
Woodhouse 0 2
Whitley Upper 0 2
Waterloo 0 2
Flockton 0 2
Shepley 0 2
Kirklees 1 2
Upper Hopton 0 3
Emley 1 2
Lower Whitley 0 2
Cumberworth Half 0 2
Mold Green 0 2
Dalton 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
KIRKBURTON 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.