A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Chesterfield. You may be able to find further references to Chesterfield in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CHESTERFIELD | 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 Chesterfield.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Calow | township | Bartholomew |
| CALOW | a township | Imperial |
| Dunston | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| Grassmoor | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| Hasland | township | Bartholomew |
| HASLAND | a village, a township, and a chapelry | Imperial |
| Holymoorside | village | Bartholomew |
| HOLYMOORSIDE | a village | Imperial |
| NORMANTON-TEMPLE | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
| Normanton Temple (or North Normanton) | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
| STONE-GRAVELS | a hamlet | Imperial |
| Tapton | township | Bartholomew |
| TAPTON | a township | Imperial |
| Temple Normanton | township | Bartholomew |
| Walton | township and village | Bartholomew |
| WALTON | a township | Imperial |
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 Chesterfield 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 | Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick | 3 |
| Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth | 3 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District | 2 |
| Thomas Pennant | June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding | 2 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 1 |
| Thomas Pennant | Stone to Stafford | 1 |
| Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Newbold | 0 | 3 |
| Whittington | 0 | 5 |
| Tapton | 0 | 2 |
| Scarsdale | 0 | 2 |
| Brimington | 0 | 2 |
| Cutthorpe | 0 | 2 |
| New Whittington | 0 | 2 |
| Brampton | 0 | 3 |
| Hasland | 0 | 2 |
| Calow | 0 | 2 |
| Walton | 1 | 2 |
| Holymoorside | 0 | 2 |
| Barrow Hill | 0 | 1 |
| Wingerworth | 0 | 2 |
| Unstone | 0 | 2 |
| Barlow | 0 | 3 |
| Cowley | 0 | 2 |
| Staveley | 1 | 2 |
| Temple Normanton | 0 | 3 |
| Duckmanton | 0 | 2 |