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 Warrington. You may be able to find further references to Warrington in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | WARRINGTON | a town, a township, a parish, and a district | Imperial | WARRINGTON AND NEWTON RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial | WARRINGTON AND STOCKPORT RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Warrington.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Birch | hamlet | Bartholomew | BIRCH | a hamlet | Imperial | Burtonwood | township | Bartholomew | BURTON-WOOD | a township-chapelry | Imperial | COLLINS-GREEN | a village, with a r station | Imperial | Fearnhead | hamlet | Bartholomew | Glazebrook | hamlet with railway station | Bartholomew | Hollinfare | ecclesiastical district and hamlet | Bartholomew | HOLLINFARE | a chapelry | Imperial | Howley | tithing | Bartholomew | HOWLEY | a tything | Imperial | MARTINSCROFT | a township | Imperial | ORFORD | a hamlet | Imperial | Padgate | ecclesiastical district and village with railway station | Bartholomew | PADGATE | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | Poulton with Fearnhead | township | Bartholomew | POULTON-WITH-FEARNHEAD | a township | Imperial | RIXTON | a township and a sub-district | Imperial | Rixton with Glazebrook | township | Bartholomew | Woolston cum Martinscroft | township | Bartholomew | WOOLSTON-WITH-MARTINSCROFT | a township | Imperial |
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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 Warrington 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 | 5 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire | 3 | George Head | Liverpool | 3 | George Head | Warrington and St. Helens | 3 | William Camden | Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 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 | Thomas Pennant | September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 1 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Little Sankey | 0 | 1 |
| Orford | 0 | 2 |
| Walton | 0 | 4 |
| Stockton Heath | 0 | 2 |
| Latchford | 0 | 2 |
| Poulton | 0 | 2 |
| Padgate | 0 | 2 |
| Fearnhead | 0 | 1 |
| Hulme | 0 | 2 |
| Great Sankey | 0 | 2 |
| Walton Superior | 0 | 1 |
| Grappenhall | 0 | 2 |
| Houghton Green | 0 | 2 |
| Acton Grange | 0 | 2 |
| Thelwall | 2 | 2 |
| Woolston | 0 | 1 |
| Penketh | 0 | 2 |
| Arbury | 0 | 2 |
| Appleton | 0 | 3 |
| Winwick | 2 | 2 |
