Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Castle Northwich	township	Bartholomew
CASTLE-NORTHWICH	a township	Imperial
Northwich	hundred	Bartholomew
NORTHWICH	a town, a township, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	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 Northwich 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	Shropshire and Cheshire	5
George Head	Liverpool	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire	2
George Head	Cheshire	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	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
Dane Bridge	0	2
Witton	0	3
Winnington	1	2
Leftwich	0	2
Shurlach	0	2
Wallerscoat	0	1
Anderton	0	2
Marbury	1	2
Hartford	1	2
Barnton	1	2
Shipbrook	0	2
Marston	0	2
Wincham	0	2
Eaton By Davenham	0	2
Newhall	0	2
Great Budworth	1	4
Cogshall	0	2
Comberbach	1	2
Lostock Gralam	0	2
Davenham	0	2