Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Castor	parish and township with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
AILESWORTH	a hamlet	Imperial
Ailsworth	hamlet	Bartholomew
Milton Park	seat	Bartholomew
MILTON PARK	the seat	Imperial
Sutton	township	Bartholomew
SUTTON	a chapelry	Imperial
Upton	township	Bartholomew
UPTON	a chapelry	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 Castor 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	Huntingdon and Northampton	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	3
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark	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
Ailsworth	0	2
Milton Park	0	2
Upton	0	2
Marholm	0	2
Sutton	0	2
Longthorpe	1	2
Water Newton	1	3
Sibson	0	2
Alwalton	0	2
Chesterton	1	2
Stibbington	0	2
Walton	0	2
Orton Waterville	2	3
Botolphbridge	0	1
Woodcroft	0	2
Ufford	0	2
Wansford	22	2
Helpston	0	2
Etton	0	2
Orton Longueville	2	4