Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NORWICH	a city and a district	Imperial
TOWN-CLOSE	a liberty	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
New Catton	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Pockthorpe	township	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 Norwich 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 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	23
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	18
William Cobbett	Dec. 10th to 24th, 1821: Norfolk and Suffolk Journal	9
Charles Wesley	July 8 - Aug. 13, 1754: Norfolk	8
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	7
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: London to Bury St Edmunds	4
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	4
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	4
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	3
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
Arthur Young	1st to 10th September 1776: Galway, Clare, Limerick and Cork	1
Arthur Young	21st to 30th September 1776: Cork and Kerry	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
Conisford	0	1
Mancroft	0	1
Coslany	0	1
Pockthorpe	0	2
Thorpe Hamlet	0	3
Lakenham	0	2
Heigham	0	2
New Catton	0	1
Mousehold	0	2
Trowse	0	2
Eaton	0	2
Arminghall	0	2
Thorpe Next Norwich	1	4
Markshall	0	2
Bixley	0	2
Catton	0	2
Whitlingham	1	2
Earlham	0	2
Hellesdon	0	2
Caister St Edmund	2	2