Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Shap	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brackenber	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hardendale	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hegdale	hamlet	Bartholomew
Keld	hamlet	Bartholomew
Racelt	hamlet	Bartholomew
Rosegill	hamlet	Bartholomew
Sleddale	hamlet	Bartholomew
Tailbert	hamlet	Bartholomew
Thornship	hamlet	Bartholomew
Toathmain	hamlet	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 Shap 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	4
George Head	Workington and the Lake District	3
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	2
George Head	The Solway Coast	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
Karl Lofts	0	3
Swindale	0	1
Crosby Ravensworth	0	2
Reagill	0	2
Thrimby	0	2
Newby	0	2
West Ward	0	2
Birkbeck Fells	0	2
Sleagill	0	2
Maulds Meaburn	0	2
Knipe	0	2
Bampton	0	2
Morland	0	2
Mardale	0	2
Great Strickland	1	3
Lowther	1	4
Hackthorpe	0	2
Kings Meaburn	0	3
Helton	0	2
High Borrow Bridge	0	3