Bromfield, Cumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bromfield parish and township Bartholomew
BROMFIELD a township and a parish Imperial
Broomfield station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
ALLONBY a seaport village, a chapelry, and a township Imperial
Blencogo township Bartholomew
BLENCOGO a township Imperial
Crookdale hamlet Bartholomew
CROOKDALE a hamlet Imperial
Dubmill coastal hamlet Bartholomew
Dundraw and Kelsick township Bartholomew
DUNDRAW AND KELSICK a township Imperial
Kelsick hamlet Bartholomew
KELSICK a hamlet Imperial
Langrigg and Mealrigg township Bartholomew
LANGRIGG AND MEALRIGG a township Imperial
Mealrigg village Bartholomew
MEALRIGG a hamlet Imperial
Mealsgate village with railway station Bartholomew
Newton, West ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
NEWTON (West) a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Newton, West, and Allonby township Bartholomew
Scales hamlet Bartholomew
SCALES a hamlet 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
Langrigg 0 2
Brayton 0 2
Blencogo 0 2
Crookdale 0 2
Mealrigg 0 2
Aspatria 1 3
Westnewton 0 3
Holme Abbey 0 4
Blennerhasset 0 2
Waverton 0 2
Allhallows 0 2
Dundraw 0 2
Holme Cultram 0 2
Holme St Cuthbert 0 2
Threapland 0 1
Bothel 0 2
Plumbland 0 2
Oughterside 0 2
Hayton 0 3
Torpenhow 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BROMFIELD 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).
BROOMFIELD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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.