Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
PENRITH	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Penrith (or Mid) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Carleton	hamlet and seat	Bartholomew
CARLETON	a hamlet	Imperial
DOCKRAY	a constablewick	Imperial
EAMONT-BRIDGE	a division of Penrith parish	Imperial
PLUMPTON-HEAD	a hamlet	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 Penrith 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.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	7
William Camden	Cumberland	3
George Head	The Solway Coast	2
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
Plumpton Head	0	1
Newton Reigny	0	2
Catterlen	0	2
Eamont Bridge	0	2
Mayburgh	0	2
Edenhall	0	3
Leath	0	2
Yanwath	0	2
Great Salkeld	1	3
Stainton	0	2
Langwathby	0	2
Great Blencow	0	3
Dacre	1	4
Little Blencow	0	2
Sockbridge	0	2
Old Penrith	0	2
Dalemain	0	2
Clifton	0	2
Eden	0	2
Little Salkeld	1	3