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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Matlock. You may be able to find further references to Matlock in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | MATLOCK | a village, a parish, and a sub-district | Imperial | MATLOCK-BATH | a village and a chapelry | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Matlock.
Place | Type of entry | Source | MATLOCK-BANK | a hamlet | Imperial | MATLOCK-BRIDGE | a hamlet | Imperial | RIBER | a hamlet | Imperial |
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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 Matlock 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. | Karl Moritz | Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire | 8 | George Head | The Peak District | 7 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District | 5 | Karl Moritz | Chapter 12: Derbyshire to Northampton | 3 | George Head | The West Riding | 1 | John Wesley | 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost | 1 | Karl Moritz | Introduction | 1 |
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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 Hist. Gazetteer |
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Snitterton | 0 | 2 |
Matlock Bridge | 0 | 1 |
Matlock Bank | 0 | 1 |
South Darley | 0 | 2 |
Wensley | 0 | 2 |
Darley | 0 | 2 |
Bonsall | 0 | 2 |
North Darley | 0 | 2 |
Tansley | 0 | 2 |
Cromford | 0 | 4 |
Birchover | 0 | 2 |
Middleton By Wirksworth | 0 | 2 |
Lea | 0 | 2 |
Ible | 0 | 2 |
Winster | 0 | 2 |
Stanton | 0 | 3 |
Lea Bridge | 0 | 1 |
Dethick | 0 | 2 |
Ivonbrook Grange | 0 | 2 |
Rowtor | 0 | 2 |