Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cardington	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cotton End	hamlet	Bartholomew
COTTON-END	a hamlet	Imperial
Eastcotts	township	Bartholomew
EASTCOTTS	a township	Imperial
Fenlake	hamlet	Bartholomew
FENLAKE	a hamlet	Imperial
Harrowden	place	Bartholomew
HARROWDEN	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 Cardington 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
Eastcotts	0	3
Cople	4	2
Willington	1	2
Wilshamstead	0	2
Elstow	2	2
Bedford	43	2
Howbury	0	2
Goldington	1	2
Wixamtree	0	2
Old Warden	15	3
Renhold	0	2
Haynes	2	2
Moggerhanger	4	3
Kempston	0	2
Northill	6	2
Great Barford	9	3
Blunham	3	2
Chicksands	12	2
Biddenham	0	2
Southill	30	2