A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Knaresborough. You may be able to find further references to Knaresborough in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | KNARESBOROUGH | 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 Knaresborough.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Bilton with Harrogate | township | Bartholomew | BILTON-WITH-HARROGATE | a township and two chapelries | Imperial | BREARTON | a chapelry | Imperial | Scriven with Tentergate | township | Bartholomew | SCRIVEN-WITH-TENTERGATE | a township | Imperial | Walkingham Hill with Ockaney | township | Bartholomew |
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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 Knaresborough 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 | 1697 Tour: York and Scarborough | 5 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 3 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Hampton Court and Windsor | 1 | Robert Gammage | Travelling in the north in 1842 | 1 |
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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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| Conyngham House | 0 | 2 |
| Scriven | 0 | 2 |
| Plompton | 0 | 3 |
| Starbeck | 0 | 2 |
| Bilton | 0 | 3 |
| Farnham | 0 | 2 |
| Ferrensby | 0 | 2 |
| Scotton | 0 | 2 |
| Goldsborough | 0 | 2 |
| Nidderdale | 0 | 1 |
| Follifoot | 0 | 2 |
| Occaney | 0 | 1 |
| Harrogate | 14 | 2 |
| Clareton | 0 | 2 |
| Brearton | 0 | 2 |
| Walkingham Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Flaxby | 0 | 2 |
| Coneythorpe | 0 | 2 |
| Great Ribston | 0 | 2 |
| Little Ribston | 0 | 3 |