Brough, Westmorland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Brough parish, township, and market town Bartholomew
BROUGH a small old town, a township, and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Brough Sowerby township Bartholomew
BROUGH-SOWERBY a township Imperial
Hilbeck township Bartholomew
HILBECK a township Imperial
Stainmore township Bartholomew
STAINMORE a township-chapelry 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 Brough 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 Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland 7
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 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
Stainmore 3 2
Brough Sowerby 0 2
Hillbeck 0 2
Kaber 0 2
Winton 0 2
Musgrave 1 5
Rey Cross 0 4
Hartley 1 2
Little Musgrave 0 2
Warcop 0 2
Lunedale 0 2
Nateby 0 2
Kirkby Stephen 3 2
Soulby 0 2
Burton 0 2
Bleatarn 0 1
Romaldkirk 0 2
East Ward 0 2
Mickle Fell 0 2
Sandford 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BROUGH 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).
BURGH William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BURGH UNDER STANEMORE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
VERTERAE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
VETERAE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.