West Kirby, Cheshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kirby, West parish, township, and village, with railway station Bartholomew
KIRBY (West) a village, a township, and a parish Imperial
West Kirby parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Caldy township Bartholomew
CALDY a township Imperial
Frankby township Bartholomew
FRANKBY a township and a chapelry Imperial
Grange township Bartholomew
GRANGE a township Imperial
Hoose coastal township Bartholomew
HOOSE, or Hoylake a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Hoylake ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Larton hamlet Bartholomew
Meolse, Great township Bartholomew
MEOLSE (GREAT) a township Imperial
Meolse, Little township Bartholomew
MEOLSE (LITTLE) a township Imperial
Newton cum Larton township Bartholomew
NEWTON-CUM-LARTON a township 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
Little Meolse 0 2
Newton 0 2
Grange 0 3
Caldy 0 2
Frankby 0 2
Hoylake 2 3
Great Meolse 0 2
Thurstaston 0 2
Greasby 0 2
Saughall Massie 0 2
Irby 0 2
Oldfield 0 2
Arrowe 0 2
Upton By Birkenhead 0 2
Wirral 8 2
Moreton 0 3
Pensby 0 2
Heswall 0 4
Woodchurch 0 2
Leasowe 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
KIRBY 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).
KIRBY WEST 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).
WEST KIRBY 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).

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.