Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bridekirk	parish and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broughton, Great	township	Bartholomew
BROUGHTON (Great)	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Broughton Little	township	Bartholomew
BROUGHTON (Little)	a township	Imperial
Dovenby	township	Bartholomew
DOVENBY	a township	Imperial
Goat	hamlet	Bartholomew
GOAT	a hamlet	Imperial
Papcastle	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
PAPCASTLE	a village and a township	Imperial
Ribton	township	Bartholomew
RIBTON	a township	Imperial
Tallentire	township	Bartholomew
TALLENTIRE	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 Bridekirk 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
Papcastle	1	2
Tallentire	0	2
Dovenby	0	2
Cockermouth	12	4
Blindcrake	0	2
Isel	0	3
Gilcrux	0	2
Little Broughton	0	2
Great Broughton	0	3
Setmurthy	0	2
Eaglesfield	0	2
Dearham	0	2
Embleton	0	2
Sunderland	0	2
Plumbland	0	2
Greysouthen	0	2
Oughterside	0	2
Allerby	0	1
Threapland	0	1
Ribton	0	2