A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Loughborough. You may be able to find further references to Loughborough in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | LOUGHBOROUGH | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | Loughborough (or Mid) Division, The | parlimentary division | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Loughborough.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Knight Thorpe | township | Bartholomew | Woodthorpe | township | Bartholomew | WOODTHORPE | a hamlet | Imperial |
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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 Loughborough 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 | Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln | 3 | Karl Moritz | Chapter 12: Derbyshire to Northampton | 2 | Arthur Young | 1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk | 2 | William Camden | Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 1 | John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 1 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Thorpe Acre | 0 | 1 |
| Knight Thorpe | 0 | 2 |
| Dishley | 7 | 2 |
| Garendon | 2 | 2 |
| Woodthorpe | 0 | 2 |
| Cotes | 1 | 2 |
| Hathern | 0 | 2 |
| Beaumanor | 0 | 2 |
| Stanford on Soar | 1 | 2 |
| Normanton on Soar | 0 | 3 |
| Barrow upon Soar | 1 | 2 |
| Woodhouse | 0 | 2 |
| Quorndon | 0 | 2 |
| Shepshed | 0 | 2 |
| Woodhouse Eaves | 0 | 2 |
| Alderman Haw | 0 | 2 |
| Hoton | 0 | 2 |
| Sutton Bonington | 0 | 2 |
| Maplewell Longdale | 0 | 2 |
| Long Whatton | 0 | 3 |