Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Knaptoft	parish and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Mowsley	township and village	Bartholomew
MOWSLEY	a chapelry	Imperial
Shearsby	township and village	Bartholomew
SHEARSBY	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Walton	township	Bartholomew
WALTON	a hamlet	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 Knaptoft 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	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	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
Bruntingthorpe	0	2
Kimcote	0	2
Mowsley	0	2
Walton	0	2
Shearsby	0	2
Peatling Parva	0	2
Laughton	0	2
North Kilworth	0	3
Arnesby	0	2
Peatling Magna	0	2
Husbands Bosworth	0	2
Theddingworth	0	2
Saddington	0	2
Gilmorton	0	2
Fleckney	0	2
Guthlaxton	0	2
Willoughby Waterleys	0	2
Ashby Magna	0	2
Hothorpe	0	2
Gumley	0	2