Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BOSWORTH (Market)	a village, a township, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial
Bosworth (or Western) Division	parlimentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BARLESTONE, or Barlston	a chapelry	Imperial
Barleston, or Barlston	township	Bartholomew
Carlton	township	Bartholomew
CARLTON	a chapelry	Imperial
Coton	hamlet	Bartholomew
COTON	a hamlet	Imperial
OSBASTON	a township	Imperial
SHENTON	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Sutton Cheney	township and village	Bartholomew
SUTTON-CHENEY	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 Market Bosworth 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.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	2
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Thomas Pennant	Stone to Stafford	1
Thomas Pennant	Tamworth to Meriden	1
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	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
Cadeby	0	2
Carlton	0	2
Sutton Cheney	0	2
Osbaston	0	2
Shenton	0	2
Congerstone	0	2
Sibson	0	2
Sparkenhoe	0	2
Barton in the Beans	0	2
Dadlington	0	2
Stapleton	0	2
Barlestone	0	2
Upton	0	2
Newbold Verdon	0	2
Bilstone	0	2
Shackerstone	0	2
Stoke Golding	0	2
Odstone	1	2
Kirkby Mallory	0	2
Nailstone	2	2