Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bowes parish and township with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Applegalth Forest hamlet Bartholomew
APPLEGARTH-FOREST a hamlet Imperial
Bowes Cross hamlet Bartholomew
BOWES CROSS a hamlet Imperial
Gallow Hill hamlet Bartholomew
GALLOW HILL a hamlet Imperial
Gilmonby township Bartholomew
GILMONBY a township Imperial
Lowfield hamlet Bartholomew
LOWFIELD a hamlet Imperial
Mellwater hamlet Bartholomew
MELLWATER a hamlet Imperial
Sleightholme hamlet Bartholomew
Stoneykeld hamlet Bartholomew
Tanhill hamlet 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 Bowes 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 Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 5

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
Gilmonby 0 2
Rey Cross 0 4
Lartington 0 2
Cotherstone 0 2
Scargill 0 2
Arkengarthdale 0 2
Hunderthwaite 0 2
Boldron 0 2
Hope 0 2
Mickleton 0 2
Barningham 0 2
Stainmore 3 2
Startforth 0 2
Romaldkirk 0 2
Brignall 0 2
Teesdale 0 2
Kaber 0 2
Egglestone Abbey 0 3
Barnard Castle 8 2
Melbecks 0 2