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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Keswick. You may be able to find further references to Keswick in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | KESWICK | a town, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district | Imperial |
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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 Keswick 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 | Workington and the Lake District | 4 | William Camden | Cumberland | 1 | John Wesley | 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy | 1 | John Wesley | 1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners | 1 | John Wesley | 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents | 1 | Arthur Young | 21st to 30th September 1776: Cork and Kerry | 1 |
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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 |
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Friars Crag | 0 | 2 |
Crosthwaite | 0 | 2 |
Lords Island | 0 | 2 |
Portinscale | 0 | 2 |
Castlerigg | 0 | 3 |
Ormathwaite | 0 | 2 |
Briery | 0 | 1 |
Applethwaite | 0 | 2 |
Druids Circle | 0 | 2 |
Underskiddaw | 0 | 2 |
Braithwaite | 0 | 2 |
Newlands | 0 | 2 |
St John in the Vale | 0 | 2 |
Coledale | 0 | 2 |
Above Derwent | 0 | 1 |
Wanthwaite | 0 | 1 |
Thornthwaite | 0 | 2 |
Lodore | 0 | 2 |
Grange | 0 | 3 |
Skiddaw | 2 | 3 |