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 Peterborough. You may be able to find further references to Peterborough in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | MINSTER-CLOSE-PRECINCTS | an extra-parochial place | Imperial | Nassaburgh | hundred | Bartholomew | NASSABURGH | a liberty | Imperial | PETERBOROUGH | a city, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | PETERBOROUGH, or Nassaburgh | a hundred | 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 Peterborough 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 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 13 | William Camden | Huntingdon and Northampton | 12 | John Byng | A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark | 7 | George Borrow | Introduction; Norfolk to Chester | 4 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield | 3 | Arthur Young | 1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk | 3 | William Camden | The Division of Britaine | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 2 | William Camden | Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland | 1 | William Cobbett | Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Preface to Second Volume | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire | 1 | George Head | The Peak District | 1 | Thomas Pennant | June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding | 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 |
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| Eastfield | 0 | 2 |
| Botolphbridge | 0 | 1 |
| Longthorpe | 1 | 2 |
| Fletton | 0 | 2 |
| Newark | 0 | 1 |
| Dogsthorpe | 0 | 2 |
| Woodston | 0 | 2 |
| Stanground | 0 | 3 |
| Walton | 0 | 2 |
| Orton Longueville | 2 | 4 |
| Paston | 0 | 2 |
| Gunthorpe | 0 | 2 |
| Milton Park | 0 | 2 |
| Orton Waterville | 2 | 3 |
| Werrington | 0 | 2 |
| Marholm | 0 | 2 |
| Alwalton | 0 | 2 |
| Eye | 0 | 2 |
| Castor | 10 | 2 |
| Farcet | 0 | 2 |