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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Bedford. You may be able to find further references to Bedford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | BEDFORD | a town, two subdistricts, and a district | Imperial |
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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 Bedford 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 | Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 7 | John Byng | A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May | 5 | Arthur Young | 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham | 5 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 4 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 4 | Robert Gammage | Becoming a Chartist speaker, and first leaving Northampton in 1840 | 4 | John Wesley | 1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners | 3 | John Byng | A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade | 2 | John Byng | A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September | 2 | Celia Fiennes | Another tour of the Midlands | 2 | Celia Fiennes | Bedfordshire | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 1 | Robert Gammage | Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2 | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Northampton to Gothurst | 1 |
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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 |
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Goldington | 1 | 2 |
Kempston | 0 | 2 |
Biddenham | 0 | 2 |
Elstow | 2 | 2 |
Renhold | 0 | 2 |
Clapham | 0 | 2 |
Howbury | 0 | 2 |
Cardington | 2 | 2 |
Ravensden | 0 | 2 |
Bromham | 1 | 2 |
Eastcotts | 0 | 3 |
Cople | 4 | 2 |
Willington | 1 | 2 |
Wilshamstead | 0 | 2 |
Oakley | 0 | 2 |
Wilden | 0 | 2 |
Great Barford | 9 | 3 |
Milton Ernest | 0 | 2 |
Barford | 0 | 2 |
Wootton | 0 | 2 |