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 Runcorn. You may be able to find further references to Runcorn in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| RUNCORN | a town, a township, 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 Runcorn.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Acton Grange | township | Bartholomew |
| ACTON-GRANGE | a township | Imperial |
| Aston by Sutton | township | Bartholomew |
| ASTON-BY-SUTTON, or Aston-Sutton | a township chapelry | Imperial |
| Aston Grange | township | Bartholomew |
| ASTON-GRANGE | a township | Imperial |
| Clifton, or Rocksavage | township | Bartholomew |
| CLIFTON, or Rocksavage | a township | Imperial |
| Daresbury | township with railway station | Bartholomew |
| Halton | township and railway station | Bartholomew |
| HALTON | a village, a township, and a chapelry | Imperial |
| Hatton | township | Bartholomew |
| HATTON | a township | Imperial |
| Keckwick, or Kekewick | township | Bartholomew |
| KEKEWICK, or KECKWICK | a township | Imperial |
| Moore | township and village with railway station | Bartholomew |
| MOORE, or MooR | a village and a township | Imperial |
| Newton by Daresbury | township and village | Bartholomew |
| NEWTON-BY-DARESBURY | a township, with avillage | Imperial |
| Norton | township and village | Bartholomew |
| NORTON | a village and a township | Imperial |
| Preston Brook | village with railway station | Bartholomew |
| PRESTON-BROOK | a village | Imperial |
| Preston on the Hill | township | Bartholomew |
| PRESTON-ON-THE-HILL | a township | Imperial |
| Rocksavage (or Clifton) | township | Bartholomew |
| Stockham | township | Bartholomew |
| STOCKHAM | a township | Imperial |
| STOCKTON-HEATH | a village | Imperial |
| Sutton | township and village with railway station | Bartholomew |
| SUTTON | a township | Imperial |
| Thelwall | township and village with railway station | Bartholomew |
| THELWALL | a township-chapelry, with a village | Imperial |
| Walton Hall | seat | Bartholomew |
| WALTON (Inferior and Superior) | two townships | Imperial |
| Walton Inferior and Walton Superior | 2 townships | Bartholomew |
| Weston | township and village | Bartholomew |
| WESTON | a township, with a village | Imperial |
| Weston Point | village | Bartholomew |
| WESTON-POINT | a chapelry, with a village | 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 Runcorn 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 | Liverpool | 9 |
| George Head | Warrington and St. Helens | 6 |
| William Camden | Shropshire and Cheshire | 2 |
| George Head | Cheshire | 1 |
| Thomas Pennant | Wybunbury to Darlaston | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Halton | 1 | 2 |
| Clifton | 2 | 3 |
| Weston | 0 | 2 |
| Weston Point | 0 | 2 |
| Sutton | 0 | 3 |
| Stockham | 0 | 2 |
| Norton | 1 | 2 |
| Widnes | 0 | 2 |
| Appleton | 0 | 2 |
| Preston Brook | 0 | 2 |
| Cuerdley | 0 | 2 |
| Keckwick | 0 | 3 |
| Ditton | 0 | 2 |
| Aston By Sutton | 0 | 3 |
| Farnworth | 0 | 2 |
| Hale | 0 | 2 |
| Preston on the Hill | 4 | 2 |
| Fiddlers Ferry | 0 | 2 |
| Frodsham | 2 | 2 |
| Moore | 0 | 2 |