Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ULVERSTON	a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bardsey Hall	seat	Bartholomew
Blawith	township	Bartholomew
BLAWITH	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Church Coniston	township	Bartholomew
Egton with Newland	township	Bartholomew
EGTON-WITH-NEWLAND	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Greenodd	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Lowick	township	Bartholomew
Mansriggs	township	Bartholomew
Newland	village	Bartholomew
NEWLAND	a village	Imperial
Osmotherly	township	Bartholomew
Pennybridge	village	Bartholomew
PENNYBRIDGE	a village	Imperial
Subberthwaite	township	Bartholomew
TORVER	a township-chapelry	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 Ulverston 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	North Lancashire	5
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	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
Conishead Priory	0	2
Newland	0	2
Mansriggs	0	2
Bardsea	0	1
Pennington	0	2
Urswick	0	2
Osmotherley	0	2
Furness	0	2
Egton	0	2
Greenodd	0	2
Scales	0	2
Upper Holker	0	2
Penny Bridge	0	2
Ireleth	0	2
North Lonsdale	0	2
Lowick	0	2
Cark	0	2
Gleaston	0	2
Aldingham	1	2
Flookburgh	0	2