Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Morecambe	small town	Bartholomew
MORECAMBE	a seaport-village, conjoint with Poulton-le-Sands	Imperial
Morecambe Bay	sea-inlet	Bartholomew
MORECAMBE RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
Poulton, Bare and Torrisholme	local government district	Bartholomew
Poulton le Sands	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
POULTON-LE-SANDS	a sea-port village, a town-ship, and a chapelry	Imperial
Poulton, (or Poulton le Sands)	township	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 Morecambe 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	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
Bare	0	2
Torrisholme	0	2
Hest Bank	3	2
Slyne	0	1
Heysham	0	2
Heaton	0	2
Skerton	0	2
Aldcliffe	0	2
Lancaster	31	3
Bulk	0	2
Bolton le Sands	0	2
Warton	0	3
Middleton	0	2
Carnforth	0	2
Stodday	0	1
Nether Kellet	0	2
Allithwaite	0	3
Halton	0	2
Lower Holker	0	2
Ashton	0	2