Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ashford township, village, and seat Bartholomew

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 Ashford in the Water 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.
Karl Moritz Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire 1

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Sheldon 0 2
Little Longstone 0 2
Brushfield 0 2
Over Haddon 0 2
Bakewell 10 2
Rowland 0 2
Great Longstone 0 4
Taddington 0 2
Hassop 0 2
Monyash 0 2
Priestcliff 0 2
Flagg 0 2
Wardlow 3 2
Pilsley 0 2
Litton 1 2
Nether Haddon 1 2
Benty Grange 0 2
Middleton 0 2
Stony Middleton 0 3
Edensor 0 2