Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Castleford	town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Glass Houghton	township	Bartholomew
Houghton, Glass	township and village	Bartholomew
HOUGHTON-GLASS	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 Castleford 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	Yorkshire: West Riding	7
George Head	Selby and Goole	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	2
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	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
Glass Houghton	0	3
Whitwood Mere	0	1
Whitwood	0	2
Ferrybridge	4	5
Allerton Bywater	0	2
Ledston	0	2
Ackton	0	3
Water Frystone	0	2
Monkhill	0	2
Pontefract	14	5
Ledsham	0	2
Fairburn	0	3
Featherstone	0	2
Methley	3	2
Tanshelf	0	2
Kippax	0	2
Great Preston	0	2
Brotherton	4	2
Carleton	0	2
Purston Jaglin	0	3