Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Whalley	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ACCRINGTON	a town, two townships, two chapel rises, and a subdistrict	Imperial
ALTHAM	a township-chapelry	Imperial
BACOP, or Bacup	a town and three chapelries	Imperial
Barley-with-Wheatley-Booth	township	Bartholomew
BARLEY-WITH-WHITLEY-BOOTH	a township	Imperial
BARROWFORD	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Barrowford Booth	township	Bartholomew
BAXENDEN	a large village	Imperial
BOOTHS (Higher)	a township	Imperial
Booths, Higher and Lower	2 townships	Bartholomew
BOOTHS (Lower)	a township	Imperial
Bowland, Little	township	Bartholomew
BOWLAND (Little)	a township	Imperial
BRIERCLIFFE	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Briercliffe with Extwistle	township	Bartholomew
Chatburn	township and railway terminus	Bartholomew
CHATBURN	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Church	town with railway station	Bartholomew
CHURCH, or Church-Kirk	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Clayton-le-Moors	township	Bartholomew
CLAYTON-LE-MOORS	a chapelry	Imperial
Cliviger	township	Bartholomew
CLIVIGER	a township	Imperial
Colcoats	hamlet	Bartholomew
COLDCOTES	a hamlet	Imperial
Deadwen	village	Bartholomew
DEADWIN	a village	Imperial
Downham	township	Bartholomew
DOWNHAM	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Dunnockshaw	township	Bartholomew
DUNNOCKSHAW	a township	Imperial
Extwisle	hamlet	Bartholomew
Fence	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
FENCE-IN-PENDLE	a chapelry	Imperial
Filley Close	hamlet	Bartholomew
Foulridge	township and railway station	Bartholomew
FOULRIDGE	a township	Imperial
Gannow	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Goldshaw Booth	township	Bartholomew
GOLDSHAW BOOTH	a township	Imperial
Goodshaw	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
GOODSHAW	a chapelry	Imperial
HABERGHAM ALL SAINTS	a chapelry	Imperial
Habergham Eaves	township	Bartholomew
HABERGHAM EAVES	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Hapton	township and railway station	Bartholomew
HAPTON	a township	Imperial
Helmshore	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Henheads	township	Bartholomew
HENHEADS	a township	Imperial
Henthorn	hamlet	Bartholomew
HENTHORN	a hamlet	Imperial
Heyhouses	township	Bartholomew
HEYHOUSES	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Higham	hamlet	Bartholomew
HIGHAM-BOOTH-WITH-WEST-CLOSE-BOOTH	a township	Imperial
Higham with West Close Booth	township	Bartholomew
HOLME	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Holme in Cliviger	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Huncoat	township and railway station	Bartholomew
HUNCOAT	a village and a township	Imperial
Hurstwood	hamlet	Bartholomew
HURSTWOOD	a township	Imperial
Ightenhill Park	township	Bartholomew
IGHTENHILL-PARK	a township	Imperial
Lane Bridge	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Lanshaw Bridge	village	Bartholomew
Laund Booth, Old	township	Bartholomew
LAUND-BOOTH (OLD)	a township	Imperial
Leagram	township	Bartholomew
LEAGRAM	a township	Imperial
Low Moor	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
LUMB	a chapelry	Imperial
Lumb in Rosendale	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
MARSDEN	a township and two chapelries	Imperial
Marsden, Great and Little	township	Bartholomew
Mearley	township	Bartholomew
Mitton, Henthorn, and Colcoats	township	Bartholomew
MITTON-HENTHORN AND COLDCOTES	a township	Imperial
Nelson	town with railway station	Bartholomew
NELSON	a village	Imperial
Newchurch	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
NEWCHURCH-IN-PENDLE	a chapelry	Imperial
Newchurch in Rossendale	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
NEWCHURCH-IN-ROSSENDALE	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Newchurch with Bacup	township	Bartholomew
Ogden	hamlet	Bartholomew
Old Laund Booth	township	Bartholomew
Oswaldtwistle	town and township	Bartholomew
Pendle Hill	mountain ridge	Bartholomew
PENDLETON	a township	Imperial
Portsmouth	village with railway station	Bartholomew
PORTSMOUTH	a village	Imperial
RAWTENSTALL	a town and a chapelry	Imperial
Read	township and village	Bartholomew
READ	a township	Imperial
Reedley Hallows, Filley Close, and New Laund Booth	township	Bartholomew
REEDLEY-HALLOWS, FILLEY-CLOSE, and NEW-LAUND-BOOTH	a township	Imperial
Roughlee Booth	township	Bartholomew
ROUGH-LEE-BOOTH	a township	Imperial
Sabden	village	Bartholomew
SABDEN	a village	Imperial
Simonstone	township and railway station	Bartholomew
SIMONSTONE	a township	Imperial
Standen Hall	seat	Bartholomew
Sykeside	village	Bartholomew
Towneley	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
TOWNELEY	a hamlet, with a r station	Imperial
TRAWDEN	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
TUNSTEAD	a chapelry	Imperial
Twiston	township	Bartholomew
TWISTON	a township	Imperial
Waterbarn	hamlet	Bartholomew
WEST CLOSE-BOOTH	a hamlet	Imperial
WHEATLEY-BOOTH	a hamlet	Imperial
Wheatley Carr Booth	township	Bartholomew
Whitewell	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WHITEWELL	a chapelry	Imperial
Wiswall	township and village	Bartholomew
WISWALL, or Wiswell	a township, with a village	Imperial
Worden Hall	seat	Bartholomew
Worsthorne	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WORSTHORNE	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Worston	township	Bartholomew
WORSTON	a township	Imperial
Yate and Pickup Bank	township	Bartholomew
YATE AND PICKUP-BANK	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 Whalley 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	2
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	1
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	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
Wiswell	0	2
Billington	0	3
Little Mitton	0	2
Great Harwood	0	3
Langho	0	1
Read	0	2
Great Mitton	0	4
Pendleton	0	2
Dinckley	0	2
Henthorn	0	2
Sabden	0	2
Simonstone	0	2
Clayton le Moors	0	2
Heyhouses	0	3
Hurst Green	0	3
Wilpshire	0	2
Stonyhurst	0	2
Aighton	0	2
Altham	0	2
Bailey	0	2