Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aylesbury	hundred	Bartholomew
AYLESBURY, or Ailesbury	a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a hundred, and a district	Imperial
Aylesbury (or Mid) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WALTON	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 Aylesbury 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	6
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	2
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	2
Celia Fiennes	Berkshire and Oxfordshire	1
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	1
Celia Fiennes	To Herefordshire	1
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	1
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	1
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	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
Walton	0	2
Hartwell	0	2
Broughton	0	2
Bierton	0	2
Stone	0	2
Stoke Mandeville	0	2
Weedon	0	2
Quarrendon	2	2
Weston Turville	0	2
Hulcott	0	2
Hardwick	0	2
Fleet Marston	0	3
Dinton	0	2
Aston Abbots	0	2
Wingrave	0	2
Puttenham	0	2
Little Kimble	0	2
Whitchurch	1	2
Marston Gate	0	2
Aston Clinton	0	2