Crosthwaite, Cumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Crosthwaite parish Bartholomew
CROSTHWAITE a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Borrowdale township Bartholomew
BORROWDALE a chapelry and a vale Imperial
Braithwaite village with railway station Bartholomew
BRAITHWAITE a township Imperial
Briery Cottages township Bartholomew
Coledale hamlet Bartholomew
COLEDALE, or Portingscale a township Imperial
Grange in Borrowdale ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
Langthwaite hamlet Bartholomew
LANGTHWAITE a hamlet Imperial
Lowthwaite hamlet Bartholomew
Newlands ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
NEWLANDS a hamlet and a chapelry Imperial
Ormathwaite Hall seat Bartholomew
PORTINGSCALE a village Imperial
Portinscale village Bartholomew
Rosthwaite village Bartholomew
St John in the Vale ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Thornthwaite cum Braithwaite ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Underskiddaw township Bartholomew
UNDERSKIDDAW a township Imperial
Wythburn ecclesiastical district and hamlet Bartholomew
WYTHBURN a chapelry 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
Portinscale 0 2
Keswick 9 2
Ormathwaite 0 2
Applethwaite 0 2
Friars Crag 0 2
Lords Island 0 2
Underskiddaw 0 2
Braithwaite 0 2
Briery 0 1
Castlerigg 0 3
Druids Circle 0 2
Thornthwaite 0 2
Coledale 0 2
Newlands 0 2
Above Derwent 0 1
Skiddaw 3 3
St John in the Vale 0 2
Wanthwaite 0 1
Lodore 0 2
Grange 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CROSTHWAITE 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:

  • 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.