Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HALIFAX	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barkisland	township	Bartholomew
BARKISLAND	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Bradshaw	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BRADSHAW	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Briers	village	Bartholomew
BRIER'S, or St. Anne's-in-the-grove	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Brighouse	town with railway station	Bartholomew
BRIGHOUSE	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Catherine Slack	village	Bartholomew
CATHERINE-SLACK	a village	Imperial
Charlestown	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
CHARLESTOWN	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Coathill	hamlet	Bartholomew
COATHILL	a hamlet	Imperial
Coley	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
COLEY	a chapelry	Imperial
COPLEY	a chapelry, with a r station	Imperial
COTE	a hamlet	Imperial
Craggbottom	hamlet	Bartholomew
Cross Stone	ecclesiastical district (St Paul) and village	Bartholomew
CROSSTONE, Cross-Stone, or Croston	a village	Imperial
Denholme	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
DENHOLME	a hamlet	Imperial
Elland	town with railway station	Bartholomew
Elland with Greetland	township	Bartholomew
Erringden	township	Bartholomew
ERRINGDEN	a township	Imperial
Fixby	township	Bartholomew
FIXBY	a township	Imperial
FRIENDLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Friendly	village	Bartholomew
GREETLAND	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Haley Hill	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
HALEY-HILL	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Harley Wood	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
HARLEY-WOOD	a chapelry	Imperial
Heath	hamlet	Bartholomew
HEATH	a hamlet	Imperial
HEBBLE-BRIDGE	a hamlet	Imperial
Hebden Bridge	town with railway station	Bartholomew
Heptonstall	township and village	Bartholomew
HEPTONSTALL	a village and a parochial chapelry	Imperial
Hipperholme	town and railway station	Bartholomew
HIPPERHOLME	a village and a township	Imperial
Hipperholme with Brighouse	township	Bartholomew
Holdsworth	village	Bartholomew
HOLDSWORTH	a village	Imperial
Hollins	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOLLINS	a hamlet	Imperial
Holywell Green	village	Bartholomew
HOLYWELL-GREEN	a village	Imperial
Hove Edge	hamlet	Bartholomew
Illingworth	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
ILLINGWORTH	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
King Cross	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
KINGCROSS	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
KNOWLS	a hamlet	Imperial
Langfield	township	Bartholomew
LANGFIELD	a township	Imperial
LEE-BANK, or Lee-Bridge	a village	Imperial
Lightcliffe	ecclesiastical district with railway station	Bartholomew
LIGHTCLIFFE	a hamlet and a chapelry	Imperial
LINDLEY (OLD)	a hamlet	Imperial
Luddenden	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
LUDDENDEN	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Luddendenfoot	small town with railway station	Bartholomew
LUDDENDENFOOT	a village	Imperial
Midgley	town and township	Bartholomew
MIDGLEY	a village and a township	Imperial
Mixenden	village	Bartholomew
MIXENDEN	a village	Imperial
Mount Pellon	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
MOUNT-PELLON	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Mount Tabor	village	Bartholomew
MOUNT TABOR	a village	Imperial
MYTHOLMROYD	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
NEW BANK	a village	Imperial
Norland	township and village	Bartholomew
NORLAND, or Northland	a township, with a village	Imperial
Northowram	small town	Bartholomew
NORWOOD-GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial
OLD LANE	a village	Imperial
OLD TOWN	a village	Imperial
Ovenden	town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
OWRAM (South)	a village, a township, and a sub-district	Imperial
PELLON	a village	Imperial
Rastrick	town and township	Bartholomew
Ripponden	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Rishworth	township	Bartholomew
RISHWORTH	a township	Imperial
Salterhebble	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
SALTERHEBBLE	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
SALTONSALL	a hamlet	Imperial
Shelf	town and township	Bartholomew
SHELF	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Skircoat	township	Bartholomew
SKIRCOAT	a township	Imperial
Southowram	town and township	Bartholomew
Sowerby	town and township	Bartholomew
SOWERBY-BRIDGE	a town and a chapelry	Imperial
Soyland	town and township	Bartholomew
Stainland	town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
STAINLAND	a large village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Stansfield	township and railway station	Bartholomew
STANSFIELD	a township, of three divisions	Imperial
Triangle	village	Bartholomew
Wadsworth	township	Bartholomew
WADSWORTH	a township	Imperial
Wainstalls		Bartholomew
Warley	township	Bartholomew
WARLEY	a township	Imperial
Wheatley	village	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 Halifax 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	23
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	9
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	5
George Head	The West Riding	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	2
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	1
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	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
Illingworth	0	2
Wheatley	0	2
Ovenden	0	2
Mount Pellon	0	2
Mixenden	0	2
Mount Tabor	0	2
Holdsworth	0	2
Catherine Slack	0	2
Bradshaw	0	2
Haley Hill	0	2
Warley	0	2
Northowram	0	2
King Cross	0	2
Luddenden	0	2
Queensbury	0	2
Skircoat	0	2
Luddenden Foot	0	2
Sowerby Bridge	0	2
Denholme Gate	0	1
Salterhebble	0	2