Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Topcliffe	parish, township, and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Asenby, Aisenby, or Azenby	township	Bartholomew
ASENBY, Aisenby, or Azenby	a township	Imperial
Azenby	township	Bartholomew
Baldersby	township with railway station, and seat	Bartholomew
BALDERSBY	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Catton	township and village	Bartholomew
CATTON	a township	Imperial
Dalton	township	Bartholomew
DALTON	a township	Imperial
Dishforth	township and village	Bartholomew
Elmire with Crakehill	township	Bartholomew
Maiden Bower		Bartholomew
MARTON-LE-MOOR	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Newby	hamlet	Bartholomew
NEWBY	a hamlet	Imperial
RAINTON-CUM-NEWBY	a township	Imperial
Rainton with Newby	township	Bartholomew
Skipton Bridge	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
SKIPTON-BRIDGE, or Skipton-upon-Swale	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Skipton upon Swale	township	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 Topcliffe 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	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	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
Newby	0	2
Asenby	0	3
Maiden Bower	0	1
Catton	0	2
Eldmire	0	2
Rainton	0	2
Carlton Miniott	0	2
Baldersby	0	2
Dalton	0	2
Skipton on Swale	0	3
Dishforth	0	2
Cundall	0	2
Crakehill	0	1
Sowerby	1	2
Sand Hutton By Thirsk	3	5
Howe	0	2
Thirsk	8	2
Melmerby	0	2
Norton le Clay	0	2
Fawdington	0	2