Featherstone, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Featherstone parish and township with railway station Bartholomew
FEATHERSTONE a township and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ackton township Bartholomew
Acton township Bartholomew
ACTON a township Imperial
Mere hamlet Bartholomew
MERE a hamlet Imperial
Purston ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
Purston Jaglin township Bartholomew
PURSTON-JAGLIN a township Imperial
Whitwood town and township Bartholomew
WHITWOOD a township and two chapelries 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
Snydale 0 2
Ackton 0 3
Huntwick 0 2
Purston Jaglin 0 3
West Hardwick 0 2
Hill Top 0 2
Sharlston 0 2
Tanshelf 0 2
Woodhouse 0 1
Hessle 0 3
Whitwood 0 2
Glass Houghton 0 3
Foulby 0 1
Normanton 0 2
Pontefract 14 5
Nostell 1 2
Whitwood Mere 0 1
Wragby 0 2
Warmfield 0 2
Castleford 14 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
FEATHERSTONE 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.