Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BARNWELL, or St. Andrew-the-Less		Imperial
CAMBRIDGE		Imperial
GILES (St.)	a parish and a sub-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 Cambridge 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	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	16
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	16
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	7
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	6
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	3
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	3
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	3
George Borrow	Machynlleth	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	2
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	1
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Addenda to the first volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: York and Scarborough	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	1
Robert Gammage	Becoming a Chartist speaker, and first leaving Northampton in 1840	1
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	1
Paul Hentzner	Arrival and London	1
Paul Hentzner	Westminster and Whitehall	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire	1
Thomas Pennant	Part II: Daventry to Northampton	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
Flendish	0	2
Chesterton	0	3
Cherry Hinton	0	2
Trumpington	4	2
Grantchester	0	3
Coton	0	2
Teversham	0	2
Fen Ditton	2	3
Great Shelford	0	3
Impington	1	2
Milton	1	2
Barton	0	2
Girton	0	2
Stapleford	0	2
Hauxton	1	2
Madingley	0	2
Histon	0	2
Haslingfield	0	2
Horningsea	0	2
Fulbourn	2	2