Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wigton	market town, parish and township, with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kirkthwaite	hamlet	Bartholomew
KIRKTHWAITE	a hamlet	Imperial
Oulton	township and village	Bartholomew
OULTON	a township, with a village	Imperial
Waverton	township	Bartholomew
WAVERTON	a township	Imperial
Woodside Quarter	township	Bartholomew
WOODSIDE-QUARTER	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 Wigton 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	Cumberland	2
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	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
Woodside	0	2
Old Carlisle	0	2
Waverton	0	2
Oulton	0	2
Westward	0	2
Dundraw	0	2
Crofton	0	2
Aikton	0	2
Woodside	0	2
Blencogo	0	2
Wiggonby	0	2
Bolton	0	5
Brocklebank	0	2
Crookdale	0	2
Thursby	0	2
Rosley	0	2
Kirkbride	0	2
Allhallows	0	2
Kirkbampton	0	4
Holme Abbey	0	4