Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ROCHDALE	a town and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Delph	village and railway terminus	Bartholomew
DELPH	a village and a sub-district	Imperial
Denshaw	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Dobcross	town	Bartholomew
DOBCROSS	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
FRIARMERE	a chapelry	Imperial
Grasscroft	village	Bartholomew
Grotton	village with railway station	Bartholomew
High Moor	village	Bartholomew
Hurstfield	village	Bartholomew
LANEHEAD	a hamlet	Imperial
LORD'S-MERE		Imperial
Lydgate	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
LYDGATE	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
New Road	village	Bartholomew
Nook	village	Bartholomew
QUICK	a hamlet	Imperial
Quickmere	local government district	Bartholomew
Radcliffe Mill	village	Bartholomew
Saddleworth	township	Bartholomew
Shawhall	village	Bartholomew
Shelderslow	hamlet	Bartholomew
Springhead	village	Bartholomew
Stonesbreak	village	Bartholomew
Stonewood	village	Bartholomew
Upper Mill	small town	Bartholomew
Waterhead	hamlet	Bartholomew
Woodbrough	village	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 Rochdale 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	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	3
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	2
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire	1
George Head	The West Riding	1
George Head	Selby and Goole	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
Spotland	0	2
Falinge	0	3
Wardleworth	0	2
Newbold	0	1
Castleton Moor	0	2
Hamer	0	1
Castleton By Rochdale	0	3
Bamford	0	2
Balderstone	0	1
Smallbridge	0	2
Healey	0	2
Thornham	0	2
Heywood	0	2
Butterworth	0	2
Hopwood	0	2
Ashworth	0	2
Wuerdle	0	2
Dearnley	0	1
Norden	0	2
Birtle	0	2