Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Higham Ferrers	hundred	Bartholomew
Higham Ferrers	market town and parish with railway station	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 Higham Ferrers 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	Huntingdon and Northampton	2
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	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
Caldecott	0	2
Chelveston	0	2
Rushden	0	2
Stanwick	0	2
Irthlingborough	0	2
Knuston	0	2
Newton Bromswold	0	2
Yelden	0	3
Wymington	0	2
Little Addington	0	2
Higham Park	0	2
Raunds	0	2
Irchester	0	2
Finedon	2	2
Shelton	0	2
Farndish	0	2
Podington	0	4
Ringstead	0	2
Great Addington	1	3
Melchbourne	1	2