Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MALTON	a sub-district and a district	Imperial
MALTON (NEw)	a town and two parishes	Imperial
New Malton	parish	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 Malton 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	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth	1
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	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
Old Malton	0	1
Broughton	0	2
Ryton	1	2
Sutton	0	1
Norton	0	2
Swinton	0	2
Scagglethorpe	0	2
Marishes	0	2
Amotherby	0	1
Appleton le Street	0	2
Great Habton	0	3
Settrington	0	2
Rillington	0	2
Kirby Misperton	0	2
Hildenley	0	2
Langton	0	2
Huttons Ambo	0	3
Menethorpe	0	2
Thorpe Bassett	0	2
Scampston	0	2