Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NORFOLK	a maritime county	Imperial

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 Norfolk 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.
Arthur Young	11th to 20th August 1776: Donegal, Fermanagh and Cavan	2
Arthur Young	1st to 10th September 1776: Galway, Clare, Limerick and Cork	2
Arthur Young	11th to 20th September 1776: Cork	1
Arthur Young	21st to 30th September 1776: Cork and Kerry	1
Arthur Young	1st to 10th October 1776: Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary	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
East Dereham	3	2
Westfield	0	2
Yaxham	0	2
Mitford	0	2
Whinburgh	0	2
Scarning	0	2
Dillington	0	2
Hoe	0	3
Gressenhall	2	2
Mattishall	0	5
North Tuddenham	0	2
Swanton Morley	0	2
Garveston	0	2
Shipdham	0	2
Thuxton	0	2
Reymerston	0	2
East Bradenham	0	2
Letton	0	2
Worthing	0	2
Elsing	1	2