Doncaster, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Doncaster municipal borough, market town, parish, and township Bartholomew
DONCASTER a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BALBY-WITH-HEXTHORPE a township-chapelry Imperial
Hexthorpe hamlet Bartholomew
LANGTHWAITE-WITH-TILTS a township Imperial
Loversall township Bartholomew
Sandall, Long township Bartholomew
SANDALL (Long) a township Imperial
Wheatley township Bartholomew

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 Doncaster 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.
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 11
William Camden Yorkshire: West Riding 4
George Head Selby and Goole 4
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire 2
William Camden Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland 1
John Wesley 1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles 1
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 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
Elmfield 0 1
Carr House 0 1
Don Valley 0 2
Wheatley 0 2
Hexthorpe 0 2
Balby 0 2
Loversall 0 2
Bentley 0 2
Arksey 0 1
Spotbrough 1 2
Warmsworth 0 2
Long Sandall 0 2
Cantley 0 2
Scawthorpe 0 1
Edenthorpe 0 1
Armthorpe 0 2
Wadworth 0 2
Branton 0 2
Kirk Sandall 0 2
Rossington 1 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CAER DAUN William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
DAN CASTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
DANCASTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
DONA CEASTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
DONCASTER 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).
DON CASTLE 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.