Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kirkby Stephen	market town, parish and township, with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hartley	township	Bartholomew
HARTLEY	a township	Imperial
Kaber	township	Bartholomew
KABER	a township	Imperial
Nateby	township	Bartholomew
NATEBY	a township	Imperial
Pendragon Castle	ruined fortress	Bartholomew
Smardale	township and railway station	Bartholomew
SMARDALE	a township, with a r station	Imperial
Soulby	township and village	Bartholomew
SOULBY	a township-chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Waitby	township	Bartholomew
WAITBY	a township	Imperial
Wharton	township	Bartholomew
Winton	township and hamlet	Bartholomew
WINTON	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 Kirkby Stephen 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	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	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
Nateby	0	2
Hartley	1	2
Wharton	1	2
Pendragon Castle	0	1
Winton	0	2
Waitby	0	2
Smardale	0	2
Mallerstang	0	2
Kaber	0	2
Brough Sowerby	0	2
Soulby	0	2
Crosby Garrett	0	2
Little Musgrave	0	2
Newbiggin on Lune	0	2
Ravenstonedale	0	2
Fellend	0	2
Bleatarn	0	1
Musgrave	1	5
Brough	8	2
East Ward	0	2