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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Braintree. You may be able to find further references to Braintree in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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BRAINTREE | a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district | Imperial |
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 Braintree 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. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 2 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 2 |
Charles Wesley | July 8 - Aug. 13, 1754: Norfolk | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 1 |
Robert Gammage | Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire | 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 |
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Bocking | 4 | 2 |
Panfield | 0 | 2 |
Rayne | 0 | 2 |
Stisted | 0 | 2 |
Black Notley | 0 | 3 |
Cressing | 0 | 2 |
Beazley End | 0 | 2 |
Shalford | 0 | 2 |
White Notley | 0 | 3 |
Bradwell | 0 | 2 |
Gosfield | 0 | 2 |
Pattiswick | 0 | 2 |
Great Saling | 0 | 2 |
Wethersfield | 1 | 2 |
Fairstead | 0 | 2 |
Felsted | 1 | 2 |
Greenstead Green | 0 | 2 |
Bardfield Saling | 0 | 3 |
Great Coggeshall | 8 | 4 |
Little Leighs | 0 | 2 |