Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Fosdyke	parish	Bartholomew
Fossdyke	parish	Bartholomew
Foss Dyke	artificial water cut	Bartholomew
FOSS DYKE	an artificial water-cut	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 Fosdyke 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.
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	2

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
Holland	0	2
Algar Kirk	0	2
Frampton	0	2
Holbeach Marsh	0	1
Drainage Marsh	0	2
Wigtoft	0	1
Holbeach	0	2
Fishtoft	0	2
Sutterton	1	2
Wyberton	0	2
Wykeham	0	1
Surfleet	0	2
Kirton	1	4
The Friths	0	1
Holbeach Hurn	0	1
Moulton	0	2
Simon Weir	0	1
Cressy Hall	0	1
Gosberton	0	2
Boston	16	3