Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Potton	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 Potton 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.
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	1
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June	1
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September	1
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	1
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	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
Sutton	4	2
Gamlingay	1	2
Cockayne Hatley	0	2
Wrestlingworth	1	2
Everton	1	2
Tetworth	0	2
Eyeworth	0	2
Sandy	11	2
Tadlow	0	2
Waresley	4	2
Hatley St George	2	2
Dunton	0	2
Beeston	0	2
Biggleswade	38	4
East Hatley	0	2
Little Gransden	0	2
Abbotsley	0	2
Tempsford	7	2
Upper Caldecote	0	3
Croydon	0	2