Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
GRASMERE	a village, a vale, a lake, a township, and a parish	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Allanbank	residence	Bartholomew
Langdale	township and hamlet	Bartholomew
LANGDALE	a hamlet and a township-chapelry	Imperial
LANGDALE (GREAT)	an upland vale	Imperial
Langdale, Great and Little	2 valleys	Bartholomew
LANGDALE (LITTLE)	an upland vale	Imperial
Loughrigg	hamlet	Bartholomew
LOUGHRIGG	a hamlet	Imperial
Rydal	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
RYDAL	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
SILVER-HOW	a bold hill	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 Grasmere 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	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
Easedale	0	2
Dunmail Raise	0	1
Lakes	0	1
Elterwater	0	2
Wythburn	0	2
Rydal	0	2
Loughrigg	0	2
Langdale	0	6
Scandale	0	2
Little Langdale	0	1
Ambleside	17	2
Clappersgate	0	2
Skelwith	0	2
Brathay	0	2
Grisedale	0	2
Patterdale	0	3
Deepdale	0	2
Three Shire Stone	0	2
Borrowdale	1	3
Dalehead	0	2