Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ORMSKIRK	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Ormskirk Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burscough	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
BURSCOUGH	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Farington	township and railway station	Bartholomew
Lathom	township	Bartholomew
Newburgh	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Scarisbrick	township and village	Bartholomew
Skelmersdale	town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
SKELMERSDALE	a village and a township-chapelry	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 Ormskirk 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 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	2
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	1
Robert Gammage	Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections	1
George Head	Liverpool	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
Lathom	2	3
Burscough	0	2
Newburgh	0	2
Bispham	0	2
Douglas	0	2
Skelmersdale	0	2
Rufford	0	2
Parbold	0	2
Dalton	0	2
Scarisbrick	2	2
Aughton	0	2
Bickerstaffe	0	2
Mawdesley	0	2
Wrightington	0	2
Croston	0	2
Sollom	0	2
Eccleston	0	2
Upholland	1	2
Mere Brow	0	2
Halsall	0	2