Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Workington	market town	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Clifton Great	township	Bartholomew
CLIFTON (Great)	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Clifton Little	township	Bartholomew
CLIFTON (Little)	a township	Imperial
Stainburn	township	Bartholomew
STAINBURN	a township	Imperial
Winscales	township	Bartholomew
WINSCALES	a township	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 Workington 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.
George Head	Workington and the Lake District	4
William Camden	Cumberland	1
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
Cloffocks	0	2
Stainburn	0	2
Winscales	0	2
Seaton	0	2
Harrington	0	2
Camerton	0	2
Great Clifton	0	4
Distington	0	2
Little Clifton	0	2
Ribton	0	2
Flimby	0	2
Branthwaite	0	2
Greysouthen	0	2
Moresby	1	2
Parton	0	2
Dean	0	2
Ewanrigg	0	1
Great Broughton	0	3
Maryport	5	3
Ullock	0	2