Wragby, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Wragby parish, ecclesiastical district, and village Bartholomew
WRAGBY a parish, with a village and five townships Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Foulby hamlet Bartholomew
Hardwick, West township Bartholomew
HARDWICK (WEST) a township Imperial
HASLE, or Hessle a township Imperial
Hessle township Bartholomew
Hill Top township Bartholomew
HILL-TOP a township Imperial
HUNTWICK a township Imperial
NOSTAL a hamlet Imperial
Nostell hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
Ryhill township and railway station Bartholomew
RYHILL a township Imperial
WINTERSET a township Imperial
Wintersett 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
Nostell 1 2
Hessle 0 3
West Hardwick 0 2
Foulby 0 1
Hill Top 0 2
Kinsley 0 1
Huntwick 0 2
Wintersett 0 2
Sharlston 0 2
Purston Jaglin 0 3
Hemsworth 1 2
Ackworth 0 2
Ryhill 0 2
Crofton 0 2
Snydale 0 2
Featherstone 0 2
South Hiendley 0 2
Felkirk 0 2
Havercroft 0 2
Warmfield 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
WRAGBY 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.