Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Crowland, or Croyland	market town and parish	Bartholomew
Croyland	town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Engine	hamlet	Bartholomew

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 Crowland 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	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	5
Thomas Pennant	Part II: Daventry to Northampton	3
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	2
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	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
Borough Fen	0	2
Cowbit	0	2
Whaplode Drove	0	2
Deeping St Nicholas	0	3
Newborough	0	2
Thorney	4	2
Moulton Chapel	0	1
Deeping St James	0	2
Eye	0	2
Gedney Hill	0	1
Peakirk	1	2
Northborough	0	2
Spalding	6	3
Market Deeping	7	4
Sutton St Edmund	0	2
Ness	0	2
Gunthorpe	0	2
Deeping Gate	0	2
Paston	0	2
Werrington	0	2