Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
PEEL	a town	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 Peel 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	The Foxdale Mines and the Calf of Man	6
George Head	The west coast of the Isle of Man	4
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	3
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	3
George Head	South from Douglas	2

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
Patrick	1	3
St Johns	4	2
Glen Maye	0	3
German	0	2
Cronk Y Voddy	0	2
Dalby	0	2
Foxdale	2	2
Glen Wyllin	1	3
Marown	0	2
Kirk Michael	5	2
Injebreck	1	2
Baldwin	0	2
Union Mills	0	2
Arbory	0	2
Santon	0	4
Ballaugh	0	2
Braddan	4	2
Malew	0	2
Colby	0	2
Ballasalla	0	2