Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
APPLEBY	a small town, two townships, two parishes, and a subdistrict	Imperial
Appleby (or Northern) Division	parlimentary division	Bartholomew
Appleby St Lawrence, and Appleby St Michael or Bongate		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Copeland Beck	hamlet	Bartholomew
CRACKENTHORPE	a township	Imperial
Hilton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Langton	hamlet	Bartholomew
LANGTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Murton cum Hilton	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 Appleby 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	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle	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
Battle Barrow	0	2
Bongate	0	1
Colby	0	2
Brampton Crofts End	0	2
Langton	0	2
Brampton	0	1
Crackenthorpe	0	2
Hoff	0	1
Ormside	0	2
Kings Meaburn	0	3
Hilton	0	2
Bolton	0	2
Sandford	0	2
Murton	0	2
Burton	0	2
Knock	0	2
Long Marton	0	3
Maulds Meaburn	0	2
Kirkby Thore	2	2
Warcop	0	2