Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Egremont	market town	Bartholomew
Egremont (or Western) Division		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 Egremont 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	Cumberland	2

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
Cleator Moor	0	2
Wilton	0	2
Lowside Quarter	0	2
Hensingham	0	2
Haile	0	3
Preston Quarter	0	2
Rottington	0	2
Beckermet	0	3
Sandwith	0	2
Corkickle	0	2
Whitehaven	27	5
Frizington	0	2
Beckermet St Bridget	0	2
Calder Bridge	0	2
Weddicar	0	2
Eskett	0	1
Salter	0	2
Moresby	1	2
Ponsonby	0	2
Parton	0	2