Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LUTON	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	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 Luton 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.
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	2
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
Thomas Pennant	In St Albans	1
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	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
Biscot	0	3
Limbury	0	2
Stopsley	0	2
Leagrave	0	4
Caddington	0	2
Hyde	0	4
Streatley	0	2
Lilley	0	2
Sundon	1	2
Markyate	4	2
Humbershoe	0	2
Dunstable	35	2
Kensworth	0	2
Houghton Regis	0	2
Offley	0	2
Kings Walden	0	2
Hexton	0	2
Flitt	0	2
Barton le Cley	0	2
Flamstead	4	3