Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Eaton Socon	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Eaton Ford	village	Bartholomew
Honeydon	place	Bartholomew
HONEYDON	a hamlet	Imperial
Staplehoe, Lower and Upper	2 hamlets	Bartholomew
STAPLEHOE (Lower and Upper)	two hamlets	Imperial
Wyboston	hamlet	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 Eaton Socon 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	12
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June	3
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September	3
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Bushmead	0	2
St Neots	24	2
Roxton	4	2
Hail Weston	2	2
Colmworth	1	2
Little Barford	1	2
Barford	0	2
Little Paxton	2	2
Tempsford	7	2
Great Staughton	1	3
Eynesbury	3	2
Little Staughton	1	2
Midloe	0	2
Wilden	0	2
Southoe	1	2
Bolnhurst	0	2
Great Barford	9	3
Great Paxton	0	2
Diddington	1	2
Blunham	3	2