Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Grantham	soke	Bartholomew
GRANTHAM	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Grantham Grange	uninhabited parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Gonerby, Little	hamlet	Bartholomew
HARLAXTON	a village and a parish	Imperial
Harrowby	township	Bartholomew
Houghton	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOUGHTON	a hamlet	Imperial
MANTHORPE	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Manthorpe cum Little Gonerby	township	Bartholomew
Spittlegate	township	Bartholomew
SPITTLEGATE, Houghton, and Walton	a township	Imperial
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 Grantham 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.
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark	7
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	3
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	2
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	2
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire	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
Little Gonerby	0	1
Winnibriggs and Threo	0	2
Spittlegate	0	2
Harrowby	0	2
Manthorpe	0	3
Harlaxton	2	2
Little Ponton	0	3
Londonthorpe	0	2
Barrowby	0	2
Great Gonerby	0	3
Stroxton	0	2
Belton	0	2
Old Somerby	0	2
Great Ponton	6	3
Syston	0	2
Denton	1	2
Hungerton	0	2
Welby	1	2
Sedgebrook	0	2
North Stoke	0	2