Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BOLTON	a town, two townships, three subdistricts, and a district	Imperial
Bolton-le-Moors		Bartholomew
BOLTON-LE-MOORS	a parish	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Anglezarke	township	Bartholomew
ANGLEZARKE	a township	Imperial
ASTLEY-BRIDGE	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Banktop	village with railway station	Bartholomew
BANK-TOP	a village	Imperial
BELMONT	a chapelry	Imperial
Belmont St Peter	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Blackrod	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
BLACKROD	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Bradshaw	township	Bartholomew
Breightmet	township	Bartholomew
BREIGHTMET	a township	Imperial
Capernwray	hamlet	Bartholomew
CAPERNWRAY	a hamlet	Imperial
Darcy Lever	township and railway station	Bartholomew
DARCY-LEVER	a township	Imperial
Eagley	village with school	Bartholomew
Edgeworth	township	Bartholomew
Edgworth	settlement with Post Office	Bartholomew
Entwisle	township and railway station	Bartholomew
ENTWISTLE	a township	Imperial
Folds	village	Bartholomew
FOLDS	a village	Imperial
Gale	village	Bartholomew
GALE	a village	Imperial
Hall	hamlet	Bartholomew
Harwood	township	Bartholomew
HARWOOD	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Haulgh	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAULGH	a township	Imperial
High Houses	village	Bartholomew
HIGH HOUSES	a village	Imperial
HORROCKS-FOLD	a village	Imperial
Horrocksford	village	Bartholomew
Leverbridge	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
LEVERBRIDGE	a chapelry	Imperial
Lever, Darcy	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
Lever, Little	township and village	Bartholomew
Little Lever		Bartholomew
Longworth	township	Bartholomew
LONGWORTH	a township	Imperial
Lostock	township	Bartholomew
LOSTOCK	a township	Imperial
Oldhams	village	Bartholomew
OLDHAMS	a village	Imperial
PICCADILLY	a hamlet	Imperial
Quarlton	township	Bartholomew
QUARLTON	a township	Imperial
SMITHILLS	a village	Imperial
Turton	town and township	Bartholomew
Walmsley	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WALMSLEY	a 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 Bolton 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.
George Borrow	Over the Berwyns	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	5
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	2
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	2
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	2
William Adams	Tramp Life	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	1
George Head	North Lancashire	1
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	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
Heaton	0	2
Halliwell	0	2
Deane	0	2
Rumworth	0	2
Smithills	0	2
Daubhill	0	2
Astley Bridge	0	2
Oldhams	0	2
Sharples	0	2
Lostock Junction	0	2
Haulgh	0	2
High Houses	0	2
Great Lever	0	2
Tonge	0	2
Lever Bridge	0	2
Middle Hulton	0	2
Darcy Lever	0	3
Breightmet	0	2
Over Hulton	0	2
Lostock	0	2