Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Long Melford	small town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew
MELFORD	a railway station and a sub-district	Imperial
Melford, Long	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kentwell Hall	seat	Bartholomew
KENTWELL HALL	a seat	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 Long Melford 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	Essex and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Arthur Young	1784 Tour of Suffolk	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
Acton	0	2
Liston	0	2
Stanstead	0	2
Alpheton	1	2
Glemsford	0	2
Foxearth	0	2
Borley	0	2
Shimpling	1	2
Chilton	0	2
Lavenham	3	2
Great Waldingfield	0	2
Sudbury	14	4
Ballingdon	0	2
Boxted	0	2
Pentlow	0	2
Little Waldingfield	0	2
Brent Eleigh	2	2
Hartest	0	2
Cavendish	2	2
Great Cornard	0	3