Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BURY-ST. EDMUNDS	a town, two parishes, 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 Bury St Edmunds 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 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	9
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	6
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	5
William Cobbett	Dec. 10th to 24th, 1821: Norfolk and Suffolk Journal	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: London to Bury St Edmunds	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	2
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 2: Hay and Brecheinia	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Charles Wesley	July 8 - Aug. 13, 1754: Norfolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	1
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	1
Thomas Pennant	In St Albans	1
Arthur Young	1784 Tour of Suffolk	1
Arthur Young	21st to 31st August 1776: Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo	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
Thingoe	0	2
Hardwick	0	2
Nowton	0	2
Westley	0	2
Fornham St Martin	0	2
Horringer	0	3
Fornham All Saints	0	2
Rushbrooke	4	2
Great Barton	0	3
Fornham St Genevieve	1	2
Rougham	1	2
Timworth	0	2
Hawstead	0	2
Little Welnetham	0	2
Ickworth	0	2
Fornham	0	1
Great Welnetham	0	3
Little Saxham	0	2
Hengrave	1	2
Risby	0	2