Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Holdgate parish Bartholomew
Holgate parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bouldon township Bartholomew
BOULDON a township Imperial
Brookhampton township Bartholomew
BROOKHAMPTON a township 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 Holdgate 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 Shropshire and Cheshire 2

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
Tugford 0 2
Thonglands 0 1
Abdon 0 2
Heath 0 2
Topley 0 2
Munslow 0 3
Shipton 1 2
Clee St Margaret 0 2
Stanton Long 0 2
Ditton Priors 0 2
Cold Weston 0 3
Skirmage 0 1
Rushbury 0 2
Diddlebury 0 2
Burwarton 0 2
Eaton under Haywood 0 2
Cleobury North 0 2
Easthope 0 2
Monkhopton 0 4
Stoke St Milborough 0 2