Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Biggleswade hundred Bartholomew
BIGGLESWADE a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred Imperial
Biggleswade (or Northern) Division Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Biggleswade.

Place Type of entry Source
Holme hamlet Bartholomew
HOLME a hamlet Imperial
STRATTON a hamlet 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 Biggleswade 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.
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May 15
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September 12
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June 4
John Byng A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade 3
John Byng A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark 1
William Camden Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 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
Dunton 0 2
Sutton 4 2
Edworth 0 2
Upper Caldecote 0 3
Langford 1 2
Astwick 0 2
Eyeworth 0 2
Hinxworth 1 2
Northill 6 2
Beeston 0 2
Southill 30 2
Sandy 11 2
Wrestlingworth 1 2
Potton 7 2
Clifton 0 2
Old Warden 15 3
Caldecote 0 2
Wixamtree 0 2
Henlow 5 2
Everton 1 2