Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Horsley parish and township Bartholomew
Horsley Woodhouse township Bartholomew
HORSLEY-WOODHOUSE a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kilbourne township and village with railway station Bartholomew
KILBOURNE a village and 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 Horsley 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.
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle 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
Holbrook 0 2
Kilburn 0 3
Denby 0 2
Smalley 0 2
Little Eaton 0 3
Morley 0 2
Milford 0 2
Amber Valley 0 2
Breadsall 0 2
Belper 0 2
Duffield 2 2
Mapperley 0 2
Stanley 0 2
Loscoe 0 1
Morleston and Litchurch 0 2
Bridge Hill 0 2
Hazlewood 0 3
Allestree 0 2
Ripley 0 2
Marlpool 0 1