Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ramsey	seaport town	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 Ramsey 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	Ramsey; a Manx Wedding	9
George Head	Point of Ayre and back to Douglas	4
George Head	Up the West Highland Coast	3
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	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
Lezayre	0	3
Maughold	0	3
Sulby	3	2
Andreas	0	3
Bride	1	3
Dhoon	0	2
Snaefell	0	2
Laxey	3	2
Ballaugh	0	2
Point of Ayre	3	2
Jurby	4	2
Lonan	0	2
Injebreck	1	2
Kirk Michael	5	2
Glen Wyllin	1	3
Baldwin	0	2
Onchan	0	4
Cronk Y Voddy	0	2
German	0	2
Union Mills	0	2