Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LANCHESTER	a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BENFIELDSIDE	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Billingside	township	Bartholomew
BILLINGSIDE	a township	Imperial
BLACKHILL	a village	Imperial
Burnhope	hamlet	Bartholomew
Burnop	township	Bartholomew
BURNOP AND HAMSTEELS	a township	Imperial
Butsfield	township	Bartholomew
BUTSFIELD	a township	Imperial
CASTLESIDE	a chapelry	Imperial
Cold Rowley	hamlet	Bartholomew
COLD-ROWLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Collierley	township	Bartholomew
CONSETT	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Conside cum Knitsley	township	Bartholomew
Cornsay	township	Bartholomew
CORNSAY	a township	Imperial
Craghead	village	Bartholomew
Crookhall	hamlet	Bartholomew
Dipton	village	Bartholomew
DIPTON	a village	Imperial
Esh	township and village	Bartholomew
ESH, or Ash	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Greencroft	township	Bartholomew
GREENCROFT	a township	Imperial
HAMLETS	a township united to Lanchester township	Imperial
Hamsteels	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Healeyfield	township	Bartholomew
HEALYFIELD	a township	Imperial
HOLMSIDE	a chapelry	Imperial
Iveston	township and village	Bartholomew
IVESTONE	a township	Imperial
Knitsley	railway station	Bartholomew
KNITSLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Kyo	township and village	Bartholomew
KYO	a township, with a village	Imperial
Langley	township	Bartholomew
LANGLEY	a township	Imperial
Leadgate	town and ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
LEADGATE	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Medomsley	township	Bartholomew
MEDOMSLEY	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Pontop	village	Bartholomew
PONTOP	a village	Imperial
Satley	township	Bartholomew
Shotley Bridge	village with railway station	Bartholomew
SHOTLEY-BRIDGE	a village	Imperial
Ushaw Moor	station	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 Lanchester 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	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
Derwentside	0	2
Greencroft	0	2
Cornsay	0	2
Hamsteels	0	1
Iveston	0	2
Leadgate	0	2
Butsfield	0	2
Knitsley	0	2
Satley	0	2
Billingside	0	2
Consett	0	4
Cold Rowley	0	3
Pontop	0	2
Langley	0	2
Esh	0	2
Kyo	0	2
Healeyfield	0	2
Hedleyhope	0	2
Blackhill	0	2