Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Penwortham	parish and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
FARRINGTON	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Howick	township	Bartholomew
HOWICK	a township	Imperial
Hutton	township	Bartholomew
HUTTON	a township with a village	Imperial
Longton	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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 Penwortham 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	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	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
Howick	0	2
Hutton	0	2
Farington	0	2
Longton	0	2
Lostock Hall	0	2
Ashton on Ribble	0	2
Little Hoole	0	1
Preston	38	3
Leyland	0	3
Cuerdon	0	2
Bamber Bridge	0	2
Lea	0	5
Walton le Dale	1	3
Ingol	0	2
Much Hoole	0	3
Fishwick	0	2
Clifton	0	3
Higher Walton	0	3
Lund	0	2
Ulnes Walton	0	2