Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Birthwaite	former name of	Bartholomew
BIRTHWAITE	a village	Imperial
Winandermere		Bartholomew
WINDERMERE	a village and a parish	Imperial
Windermere, (or Winandermere)	lake	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
APPLETHWAITE	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
BOWNESS	a small town	Imperial
LINDRETH	a hamlet	Imperial
Storrs	hamlet	Bartholomew
Troutbeck	township and village	Bartholomew
TROUTBECK	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
UNDERMILBECK	a township	Imperial

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 Windermere 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	5
William Adams	Brantwood	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	2
William Adams	On Tramp	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle	1
George Head	Workington and the Lake District	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 Hist. Gazetteer
Applethwaite	0	2
Rayrigg	0	2
Bowness on Windermere	0	2
Belle Isle	0	3
Ferry House	0	2
Claife	0	2
Undermillbeck	0	2
Low Wood	0	2
Troutbeck	0	2
Hugill	0	2
Low Wray	0	2
Storrs	0	2
Sawrey	0	2
Crook	0	2
Winster	0	2
Staveley	0	3
Outgate	0	1
Brathay	0	2
Hawkshead	0	2
Clappersgate	0	2