Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Silsoe	township and village	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WREST PARK	the seat	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 Silsoe 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: London to Biggleswade	1
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	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
Flitton	2	2
Pulloxhill	0	2
Lower Gravenhurst	0	2
Higham Gobion	0	2
Clophill	2	2
Upper Gravenhurst	0	2
Maulden	2	2
Barton le Cley	0	2
Houghton Conquest	5	2
Campton	0	2
Flitt	0	2
Flitwick	0	2
Chicksands	12	2
Shillington	0	2
Ampthill	16	2
Haynes	2	2
Westoning	0	2
Hexton	0	2
Meppershall	2	2
Upper Stondon	0	2