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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Linton. You may be able to find further references to Linton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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LINTON | a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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 Linton 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. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 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 |
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Hildersham | 2 | 2 |
Hadstock | 0 | 2 |
Chilford | 0 | 2 |
Bartlow | 1 | 2 |
Great Abington | 0 | 4 |
Balsham | 2 | 2 |
Little Abington | 0 | 2 |
Horseheath | 2 | 2 |
Great Chesterford | 1 | 3 |
West Wickham | 0 | 3 |
Ashdon | 0 | 2 |
West Wratting | 1 | 3 |
Shudy Camps | 0 | 2 |
Pampisford | 0 | 2 |
Little Chesterford | 0 | 2 |
Hinxton | 1 | 2 |
Castle Camps | 1 | 2 |
Babraham | 1 | 2 |
Weston Colville | 0 | 2 |
Saffron Walden | 8 | 4 |