Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BAKEWELL	a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ashford	township, village, and seat	Bartholomew
ASHFORD	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
BASLOW	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Baslow with Bubnell	township, village, and ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BEELEY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Blackwell	township	Bartholomew
BLACKWELL	a township	Imperial
Brushfield	township	Bartholomew
BRUSHFIELD	a township	Imperial
Calver	township	Bartholomew
CALVER	a township	Imperial
Chelmerton	township	Bartholomew
CHELMORTON	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Curbar	township	Bartholomew
CURBAR	a township	Imperial
Flagg	township	Bartholomew
FLAGG	a township	Imperial
Froggatt	township and hamlet	Bartholomew
FROGGATT	a township	Imperial
Great Longstone	village	Bartholomew
Haddon, Over	township	Bartholomew
HADDON (OVER)	a township	Imperial
Harthill (or Hartle)	township	Bartholomew
HARTHILL, or HARTLE	a township	Imperial
Hassop	township with railway station	Bartholomew
HASSOP	a village and a township	Imperial
Hillcote	hamlet	Bartholomew
Holme	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOLME	a township	Imperial
Longstone, Great	township, ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
LONGSTONE (GREAT)	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Longstone, Little	township	Bartholomew
LONGSTONE (LITTLE)	a township	Imperial
Monyash	township and village	Bartholomew
MONYASH	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Priestcliff	hamlet	Bartholomew
PRIESTCLIFF	a township	Imperial
Rowland	township	Bartholomew
ROWLAND	a township	Imperial
Rowsley	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
Sheldon	township	Bartholomew
SHELDON	a township-chapelry	Imperial
TADDINGTON AND PRIESTCLIFF	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 Bakewell 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	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	2
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth	2
Karl Moritz	Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: The Peak District	1
George Head	The Peak District	1
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	1
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk	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
Over Haddon	0	2
Nether Haddon	1	2
Ashford in the Water	1	2
Pilsley	0	2
Rowland	0	2
Hassop	0	2
Edensor	0	2
Great Rowsley	0	2
Sheldon	0	2
Harthill	0	3
Great Longstone	0	4
Youlgreave	0	2
Little Longstone	0	2
Middleton	0	2
Stanton	0	3
Baslow	0	2
Chatsworth	18	2
Bubnell	0	1
Brushfield	0	2
Monyash	0	2