A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Cockermouth. You may be able to find further references to Cockermouth in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | COCKERMOUTH | a town, two chapelries, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | COCKERMOUTH AND WORKINGTON RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial | COCKERMOUTH, KESWICK, AND PENRITH RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
|---|
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 Cockermouth 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 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland | 3 | John Wesley | 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery | 2 | William Camden | Cumberland | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle | 1 | George Head | Workington and the Lake District | 1 | John Wesley | 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents | 1 | John Wesley | 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Papcastle | 1 | 2 |
| Bridekirk | 1 | 2 |
| Embleton | 0 | 2 |
| Eaglesfield | 0 | 2 |
| Setmurthy | 0 | 2 |
| Isel | 0 | 3 |
| Blindbothel | 0 | 2 |
| Blindcrake | 0 | 2 |
| Whinfell | 0 | 2 |
| Dovenby | 0 | 2 |
| Little Broughton | 0 | 2 |
| Brigham | 0 | 2 |
| Great Broughton | 0 | 3 |
| Tallentire | 0 | 2 |
| Lorton | 0 | 2 |
| Greysouthen | 0 | 2 |
| Mosser | 0 | 2 |
| Wythop | 0 | 2 |
| Sunderland | 0 | 2 |
| Gilcrux | 0 | 2 |
