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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Penrith. You may be able to find further references to Penrith in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | PENRITH | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | Penrith (or Mid) Division | parliamentary division | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Penrith.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Carleton | hamlet and seat | Bartholomew | CARLETON | a hamlet | Imperial | DOCKRAY | a constablewick | Imperial | EAMONT-BRIDGE | a division of Penrith parish | Imperial | PLUMPTON-HEAD | a hamlet | Imperial |
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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 Penrith 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. | Thomas Pennant | September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire | 9 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle | 8 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland | 7 | William Camden | Cumberland | 3 | George Head | The Solway Coast | 2 | Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 2 | George Head | Workington and the Lake District | 1 |
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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 |
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Plumpton Head | 0 | 1 |
Carleton | 0 | 2 |
Newton Reigny | 0 | 2 |
Catterlen | 0 | 2 |
Eamont Bridge | 0 | 2 |
Mayburgh | 0 | 2 |
Edenhall | 0 | 3 |
Leath | 0 | 2 |
Yanwath | 0 | 2 |
Great Salkeld | 1 | 3 |
Stainton | 0 | 2 |
Langwathby | 0 | 2 |
Great Blencow | 0 | 3 |
Dacre | 1 | 4 |
Little Blencow | 0 | 2 |
Sockbridge | 0 | 2 |
Old Penrith | 0 | 2 |
Dalemain | 0 | 2 |
Clifton | 0 | 2 |
Eden | 0 | 2 |