Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dacre stream Bartholomew
Dacre parish Bartholomew
DACRE (The) a stream Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BLENCOW (Great) a township Imperial
DALEMAIN a seat Imperial
NEWBIGGEN a township Imperial
Newbiggin hamlet Bartholomew
Soulby hamlet Bartholomew
SOULBY a township Imperial
STAINTON 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 Dacre 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 Cumberland 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
Dalemain 0 2
Stainton 0 2
Hutton John 0 2
Newton Reigny 0 2
Pooley Bridge 0 2
Sockbridge 0 2
Great Blencow 0 3
Yanwath 0 2
Winder Low 0 2
Little Blencow 0 2
Catterlen 0 2
Mayburgh 0 2
Eamont Bridge 0 2
Penrith 21 3
Hutton 0 2
Carleton 0 2
Askham 0 2
Berrier 0 2
Plumpton Head 0 1
Clifton 0 2