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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about St Ives. You may be able to find further references to St Ives in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | IVES (ST.) | a town, a parish, a sub-district, 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 St Ives 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 | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield | 1 | John Wesley | 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War | 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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Houghton | 0 | 2 |
Needingworth | 0 | 2 |
Holywell | 0 | 2 |
Woodhurst | 0 | 2 |
Hemingford Grey | 0 | 2 |
Wyton | 0 | 3 |
Fenstanton | 2 | 3 |
Fen Drayton | 0 | 3 |
Old Hurst | 0 | 3 |
Hemingford Abbots | 0 | 2 |
Bluntisham | 0 | 2 |
Pidley | 0 | 2 |
Hartford | 0 | 2 |
Hurstingstone | 0 | 2 |
Broughton | 0 | 2 |
Conington | 0 | 2 |
Over | 0 | 2 |
Kings Ripton | 0 | 3 |
Swavesey | 1 | 2 |
Fenton | 0 | 2 |