Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Batley	municipal borough, parish, and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BATLEY-CARR	a hamlet and a chapelry	Imperial
Brookroyd	hamlet	Bartholomew
BROOKROYD	a hamlet	Imperial
Brownhill	hamlet	Bartholomew
BROWNHILL	a hamlet	Imperial
Capas Height	hamlet	Bartholomew
Carlinghow	ecclesiastical district (St John) and hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
CARLINGHOW	a hamlet	Imperial
Chapel Fold	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHAPEL-FOLD	a hamlet	Imperial
Churwell	township and railway station	Bartholomew
CHURWELL	a township	Imperial
Clark Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
CLARK-GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial
Four Lane Ends	hamlet	Bartholomew
FOUR LANE ENDS	a hamlet	Imperial
Gildersome	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
GILDERSOME	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
GILDERSOME-STREET	a hamlet	Imperial
Havercroft	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAVERCROFT	a hamlet	Imperial
Healey	hamlet	Bartholomew
HEALEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Hollingbank Lane	hamlet	Bartholomew
Howley Hall	seat	Bartholomew
HOWLEY-HALL	a hamlet	Imperial
KELPIN-HILL	a hamlet	Imperial
LEE (WHITE)	a hamlet	Imperial
PURLWELL	a hamlet	Imperial
ROADSIDE (New)	a hamlet	Imperial
Staincliffe	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew

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 Batley 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	The West 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
Carlinghow	0	2
Purlwell	0	1
Staincliffe	0	2
Batley Carr	0	1
Brownhill	0	2
Hanging Heaton	0	2
Heckmondwike	0	2
Birstall	23	2
Dewsbury Moor	0	2
Bruntcliffe	0	2
West Town	0	2
Morley	1	3
Mill Bridge	0	2
Earlsheaton	0	3
Ardsley West	0	3
Gomersal	0	2
Soothill	0	2
Gawthorpe	0	2
Adwalton	0	2
Gildersome	0	2