Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aldborough	parish, township, and seat	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CARLTON-WITH-FOSHAM	a hamlet	Imperial
Dunsforth	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
DUNSFORTH (Lower)	a township	Imperial
Ellenthorpe	township	Bartholomew
ELLENTHORPE	a township	Imperial
Minskip	township and village	Bartholomew
MINSKIP	a township, with a village	Imperial
ROCLIFF, or Roecliff	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Roecliffe	township	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 Aldborough 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	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	3

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
Boroughbridge	14	2
Minskip	0	2
Grafton	0	2
Ellenthorpe	0	2
Marton	0	2
Milby	0	2
Langthorpe	0	2
Roecliffe	0	3
Lower Dunsforth	0	3
Humberton	0	2
Myton on Swale	1	2
Kirby Hill	0	4
Upper Dunsforth	0	2
Arkendale	0	2
Mulwith	0	2
Staveley	0	2
Great Ouseburn	0	3
Skelton on Ure	0	4
Thornton Bridge	0	2
Westwick	0	2