Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
MELTON-MOWBRAY a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
Melton (or Eastern) Division, The parlimentary division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Burton Lazars township Bartholomew
BURTON-LAZARS a chapelry Imperial
Freeby township Bartholomew
FREEBY a chapelry Imperial
Sysonby township Bartholomew
SYSONBY a chapelry Imperial
Welby township Bartholomew
WELBY 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 Melton Mowbray 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 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 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
Sysonby 0 2
Welby 0 2
Thorpe Arnold 0 2
Burton Lazars 4 2
Brentingby 0 1
Asfordby 0 2
Wyfordby 0 2
Kirby Bellars 1 2
Ab Kettleby 0 2
Scalford 0 2
Holwell 0 2
Frisby on the Wreak 0 2
Great Dalby 0 3
Wartnaby 0 2
Freeby 0 2
Saxelby 0 2
Little Dalby 0 3
Stapleford 0 2
Wycomb 0 2
Chadwell 0 2