Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Parkgate	village with railway station	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 Parkgate 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.
George Head	The Wirral	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	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
Neston	2	5
Leighton	0	2
Gayton	0	2
Little Neston	0	2
Ness	0	2
Heswall	0	4
Thornton Hough	0	2
Wirral	8	2
Barnston	0	2
Raby	0	2
Brimstage	0	2
Oldfield	0	2
Pensby	0	2
Flint	7	2
Burton	3	2
Willaston	0	2
Coleshill	2	4
Pentre	0	1
Thurstaston	0	2
Thingwall	0	2