Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bradholme	hamlet	Bartholomew
BRADHOLME	a hamlet	Imperial
Ditchmarsh	hamlet	Bartholomew
DITCHMARSH	a hamlet	Imperial
Hangman Hill	hamlet	Bartholomew
HANGMAN HILL	a hamlet	Imperial
LEVELS	a hamlet	Imperial
MOOR-ENDS	a hamlet	Imperial
Waterside (or Quay)	hamlet	Bartholomew
WATERSIDE, or Quay	a hamlet	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 Thorne 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.
George Head	Selby and Goole	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	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
Moorends	0	1
Fishlake	0	2
Hay Green	0	2
Fosterhouses	0	2
Crowle	0	2
Stainforth	0	2
Hatfield	1	2
Rawcliffe	0	2
Sykehouse	4	2
Snaith	1	2
Swinefleet	0	2
Kirk Bramwith	0	2
Belton	0	2
Airmyn	0	3
Cowick	0	2
Eastoft	0	3
Reedness	0	2
Goole	21	2
Axholme	0	2
Barnby upon Don	0	3