Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Mistley parish and village with railway station Bartholomew
MISTLEY, THORPE, AND WALTON RAILWAY a railway 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 Mistley 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.
Arthur Young 1784 Tour of Suffolk 5
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:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Bradfield 4 2
Little Bromley 0 3
Manningtree 7 2
Lawford 2 1
Brantham 1 2
Wix 0 2
Little Bentley 0 3
Great Bromley 0 3
Stutton 0 2
Wrabness 0 2
Tendring 0 4
Dodnash 0 2
East Bergholt 0 3
Dedham 1 2
Ardleigh 1 2
Beaumont 0 2
Tattingstone 0 2
Bentley 1 2
Frating 0 2
Great Oakley 0 3