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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Prescot. You may be able to find further references to Prescot in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | PRESCOT | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Prescot.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Appleton | village with railway station | Bartholomew | APPLETON | a village | Imperial | Ashton Green | hamlet | Bartholomew | ASHTON-GREEN | a hamlet | Imperial | Bold | township and hamlet | Bartholomew | BOLD | two hamlets and a township | Imperial | Cronton | township | Bartholomew | CRONTON | a township | Imperial | Cuerdley | township | Bartholomew | CUERDLEY, or Cruerdley | a township | Imperial | Ditton | township and railway station | Bartholomew | DITTON | a township | Imperial | ECCLESTON | a township and two chapelries | Imperial | Haigh Green | hamlet | Bartholomew | Hammer | hamlet | Bartholomew | HAMMER AND PINCERS | a hamlet | Imperial | Hanging Birch | hamlet | Bartholomew | HANGING-BIRCH | a hamlet | Imperial | LANE-ENDS | a village | Imperial | Luntsheath | hamlet | Bartholomew | LUNTS-HEATH | a hamlet | Imperial | Marshall Cross | Bartholomew | MARSHALL'S CROSS | a place | Imperial | Maypole | hamlet | Bartholomew | MAY POLE | a hamlet | Imperial | Moss Bank | village with railway station | Bartholomew | MOSS-BANK | a hamlet | Imperial | Parr | township | Bartholomew | PARR | a village, a township, and a chapelry | Imperial | Parr Mount | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Penketh | township | Bartholomew | PENKETH | a township | Imperial | Rainford | town and township | Bartholomew | RAINHILL | a village, a township, and a chapelry | Imperial | Ravenhead | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | RAVENHEAD | a hamlet | Imperial | Sankey, Great | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | SANKEY (Great) | a township and a chapelry | Imperial | Sutton | township and railway station | Bartholomew | SUTTON | a township and a chapelry | Imperial | Upton | hamlet | Bartholomew | Whiston | township | Bartholomew | WHISTON | a township | Imperial | WIDNES | a town, a township, and a chapelry | Imperial | Windle | township | Bartholomew | WINDLE | a township | Imperial |
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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 Prescot 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. | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire | 2 |
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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 |
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Whiston | 0 | 2 |
Huyton Quarry | 0 | 2 |
Eccleston | 0 | 2 |
Huyton | 0 | 3 |
Knowsley | 0 | 2 |
Rainhill | 1 | 2 |
Thatto Heath | 0 | 1 |
Roby | 0 | 2 |
Ravenhead | 0 | 2 |
Tarbock | 1 | 3 |
Cronton | 0 | 2 |
Little Woolton | 0 | 2 |
Childwall | 0 | 3 |
St Helens | 8 | 3 |
Sutton | 0 | 2 |
Hanging Birch | 0 | 2 |
Knotty Ash | 0 | 2 |
Gateacre | 0 | 2 |
Croxteth Park | 0 | 2 |
Windle | 0 | 2 |