Dalton in Furness, Lancashire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dalton-in-Furness market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
DALTON-IN-FURNESS a small town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BARROW, or Barrow-in-Furness Imperial
Biggar hamlet Bartholomew
BIGGAR a hamlet Imperial
FOULDREY a rocky islet Imperial
Hawcote hamlet Bartholomew
IRELETH a village and a chapelry Imperial
Ireleth cum Askham ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Marton village Bartholomew
NEW BARNS a village Imperial
Newbarns and Hawcote ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
NEWTON a hamlet Imperial
Piel island Bartholomew
Rampside ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew
RAMPSIDE a village and a chapelry Imperial
Roose village with railway station Bartholomew
ROOSE a hamlet Imperial
WALNEY an island and a chapelry Imperial
Walney, Isle of island Bartholomew
YARLSIDE a township, with Rampside village and three 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
Ireleth 0 2
Millom 2 2
Hawcoat 0 1
Furness Abbey 1 1
Pennington 0 2
Holborn Hill 0 2
Angerton 0 1
Yarlside 0 1
Dendron 0 2
Kirkby Ireleth 0 4
Gleaston 0 2
Urswick 0 2
Scales 0 2
Leece 0 2
Osmotherley 0 2
Green Road 0 2
Barrow in Furness 0 3
Ulverston 6 2
Mansriggs 0 2
The Green 0 1

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Dalton in Furness. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
DALTON IN FURNESS 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).

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