Northwich, Cheshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Castle Northwich township Bartholomew
CASTLE-NORTHWICH a township Imperial
Northwich hundred Bartholomew
Northwich market town and township with railway station Bartholomew
NORTHWICH a town, a township, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Northwich within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Camden Shropshire and Cheshire 5
George Head Liverpool 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands 2
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire 2
George Head Cheshire 2
Thomas Pennant Appendix VIII: Itinerary 2
Thomas Pennant June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding 1

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
Dane Bridge 0 2
Witton 0 3
Winnington 1 2
Leftwich 0 2
Shurlach 0 2
Wallerscoat 0 1
Anderton 0 2
Marbury 1 2
Hartford 1 2
Barnton 1 2
Shipbrook 1 2
Marston 0 2
Wincham 0 2
Eaton By Davenham 0 2
Newhall 0 2
Great Budworth 1 4
Cogshall 0 2
Comberbach 1 2
Lostock Gralam 0 2
Davenham 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BLACK SALT TOWN John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
CASTLE NORTHWICH 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).
CONDATE Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
HELLATH DU William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
NORTHWICH 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).
NORTHWITH William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
NORWITCH Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).

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.