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Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Prestwich town, parish, and township Bartholomew
PRESTWICH a small town, a township, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Coldhurst ecclesiastical district and NE. suburb of Manchester Bartholomew
COLDHURST a chapelry Imperial
COWLISHALL a village Imperial
Crompton township Bartholomew
Crompton, East ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
CROMPTON (East) a chapelry Imperial
Crompton, High ecclesiastical district (St Mary) and village Bartholomew
Greenacres Moor district Bartholomew
Heaton, Great township Bartholomew
HEATON (Great) a township Imperial
HEATON (LITTLE) a township Imperial
Heyside ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
Hollinwood ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew
HOLLINWOOD a village and a chapelry Imperial
LANDS-END a hamlet Imperial
Lower Mills paperworks Bartholomew
Moorside ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
OUTWOOD a hamlet Imperial
PILKINGTON a township Imperial
PRESTOLEE a chapelry Imperial
RINGLEY a chapelry Imperial
Royton town and township with railway station Bartholomew
SHAW a village and a chapelry Imperial
SHOLVER a hamlet Imperial
Stand Lane ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
STAND, or Whitefield a chapelry, with a village Imperial
Stand (or Whitfield) ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Tonge township Bartholomew
TONGE a township and a chapelry Imperial
Tonge with Alkrington ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
UNSWORTH a chapelry, with three hamlets Imperial
Waterhead ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
WATERHEAD a chapelry Imperial
Watersheddings Bartholomew
Werneth ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
WERNITH a chapelry Imperial
Whitefield town with railway station 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
Great Heaton 0 2
Kersall 0 2
Whitefield 0 3
Little Heaton 0 2
Broughton 0 2
Crumpsall 0 2
Cheetham Hill 0 2
Pilkington 0 2
Rhodes 0 2
Pendlebury 0 2
Blackley 0 2
Charlestown 0 2
Clifton 0 2
Unsworth 0 2
Harpurhey 0 2
Outwood 0 1
Lower Broughton 0 1
Swinton 0 2
Salford 3 3
Collyhurst 1 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
PRESTWICH 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.