Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HOLYWELL	a town, 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 Holywell.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bagillt	ecclesiastical district (St Mary) and village with railway station	Bartholomew
BAGILLT	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Basingwerk	ruined abbey	Bartholomew
BRYNFORD	a township	Imperial
Calcot	hamlet	Bartholomew
CALCOT	a township	Imperial
Coleshillfawr	hamlet	Bartholomew
COLESHILL-FAWR	a township	Imperial
Dinas Basing	ruined abbey	Bartholomew
Greenfield	hamlet	Bartholomew
GREENFIELD	a township	Imperial
WELSTONE	a township	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 Holywell 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.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire	3
William Camden	Rest of Wales	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	2
George Borrow	Wrexham and Llangollen	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	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
Greenfield	0	2
Bagillt	0	2
Brynford	0	2
Calcot	0	2
Downing	0	2
Mostyn	0	2
Whitford	0	2
Gorsedd	0	2
Bychton	1	2
Coleshill	2	4
Flint	7	2
Heswall	0	4
Thurstaston	0	2
Caldy	0	2
Lygan Y Llan	0	1
Gayton	0	2
Wirral	8	2
Rhes Y Cae	0	2
Oldfield	0	2
Halkyn	0	2