Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Methley	town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Whitwood Mere	ecclesiastical district	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 Methley 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.
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	2
George Head	The West Riding	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
Whitwood	0	2
Oulton	0	3
Altofts	0	2
Allerton Bywater	0	2
Whitwood Mere	0	1
Great Preston	0	2
Normanton	0	2
Woodlesford	0	2
Little Preston	0	1
Kippax	0	2
Ackton	0	3
Rothwell	1	2
Swillington	0	2
Newland	0	2
Castleford	14	2
Woodhouse	0	1
Newsam Green	0	2
Ledston	0	2
Glass Houghton	0	3
Garforth	1	2