Greasley, Nottinghamshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Greasley parish Bartholomew
GREASLEY a hamlet, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Beau Vale manor Bartholomew
BEAU-VALE a manor Imperial
BRINSLEY, or Brunsley a hamlet and a chapelry Imperial
KIMBERLEY a hamlet and a chapelry Imperial
Moor Green hamlet Bartholomew
MOOR-GREEN a hamlet Imperial
Newthorpe village Bartholomew
NEWTHORPE a hamlet Imperial
Old Brinsley village Bartholomew
Watnall village with railway station Bartholomew
WATNALL-CANTELOPE and W.-CHAWORTH two hamlets 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
Moor Green 0 2
Newthorpe 0 2
Beauvale 0 2
Watnall 0 2
Eastwood 0 2
Kimberley 0 2
Awsworth 0 2
Nuthall 0 3
Brinsley 0 2
Langley 0 2
Langley Mill 0 2
Aldercar 0 1
Felley 0 2
Cotmanhay 0 2
Hucknall 1 4
Marlpool 0 1
Cossall 0 2
Annesley 0 2
Broxtowe 0 3
Shipley 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
GREASLEY 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.