Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DONCASTER	a town, 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 Doncaster.

Place	Type of entry	Source
BALBY-WITH-HEXTHORPE	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Hexthorpe	hamlet	Bartholomew
LANGTHWAITE-WITH-TILTS	a township	Imperial
Loversall	township	Bartholomew
Sandall, Long	township	Bartholomew
SANDALL (Long)	a township	Imperial
Wheatley	township	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 Doncaster 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	11
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	4
George Head	Selby and Goole	4
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire	2
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	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
Elmfield	0	1
Carr House	0	1
Don Valley	0	2
Wheatley	0	2
Hexthorpe	0	2
Balby	0	2
Loversall	0	2
Bentley	0	2
Arksey	0	1
Spotbrough	1	2
Warmsworth	0	2
Long Sandall	0	2
Cantley	0	2
Edenthorpe	0	1
Armthorpe	0	2
Wadworth	0	2
Branton	0	2
Kirk Sandall	0	2
Rossington	1	2
Stancill	0	2