Eglwys Bach, Denbighshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Appleby market and county town Bartholomew
APPLEBY a small town, two townships, two parishes, and a subdistrict Imperial
Appleby (or Northern) Division parlimentary division Bartholomew
Appleby St Lawrence, and Appleby St Michael or Bongate Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Copeland Beck hamlet Bartholomew
CRACKENTHORPE a township Imperial
Hilton hamlet Bartholomew
Langton hamlet Bartholomew
LANGTON a hamlet Imperial
Murton cum Hilton ecclesiastical district 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 Appleby 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 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland 3
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle 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
Battle Barrow 0 2
Bongate 0 1
Colby 0 2
Brampton Crofts End 0 2
Langton 0 2
Brampton 0 1
Crackenthorpe 0 2
Hoff 0 1
Ormside 0 2
Kings Meaburn 0 3
Hilton 0 2
Bolton 0 2
Sandford 0 2
Murton 0 2
Burton 0 2
Knock 0 2
Long Marton 0 3
Maulds Meaburn 0 2
Kirkby Thore 2 2
Warcop 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
ABALLABA William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
APLEBY William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
APPLEBEY William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
APPLEBY 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).
APPLEBY OR NORTHERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
APPLEBY ST LAWRENCE AND APPLEBY ST MICHAEL OR BONGATE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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.