Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
St Helens	small town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Oakfield	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
OAKFIELD	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 St Helens 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 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	1
John Wesley	1729-36: Wesley as a Missionary to Georgia	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
Spring Vale	0	2
Seaview	0	2
St Johns Park	0	2
Apley	0	2
Oakfield	0	2
Swanmore	0	1
Ryde	4	2
Spithead	0	2
Bembridge	1	2
Binstead	0	2
Brading	1	2
Ashey	0	2
Yaverland	0	2
Haven Street	0	2
Alverstone	0	2
Stokes Bay	0	2
Anglesey	0	2
Sandown	0	2
Southsea	0	2
Wootton	0	3