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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lowestoft. You may be able to find further references to Lowestoft in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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LOWESTOFT | a town, a parish, and a sub-district | Imperial |
Lowestoft (or Northern) Division, The | parliamentary division | Bartholomew |
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 Lowestoft 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. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 5 |
Arthur Young | 1784 Tour of Suffolk | 4 |
Henry Broadhurst | In Journeyings Often | 2 |
William Camden | Essex and Suffolk | 1 |
William Camden | Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon | 1 |
John Wesley | 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life | 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:
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Kirkley | 0 | 2 |
Oulton Broad | 0 | 2 |
Gunton | 0 | 2 |
Flixton | 0 | 2 |
Carlton Colville | 0 | 2 |
Pakefield | 1 | 2 |
Blundeston | 0 | 2 |
Lothingland | 0 | 2 |
Corton | 0 | 2 |
Gisleham | 0 | 2 |
Burgh St Peter | 0 | 3 |
Barnby | 0 | 2 |
Somerleyton | 1 | 2 |
Rushmere | 0 | 2 |
Kessingland | 0 | 2 |
Lound | 0 | 2 |
Wheatacre | 0 | 2 |
Mutford | 0 | 4 |
Hopton on Sea | 0 | 1 |
North Cove | 0 | 3 |