Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
GILES (St.)	a parish and a sub-district	Imperial
NORTHAMPTON	a town and a district	Imperial
NORTHAMPTON and BANBURY JUNCTION railway	a railway	Imperial
NORTHAMPTON and MARKET-HARBOROUGH RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
NORTHAMPTON and PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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 Northampton 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.
Thomas Pennant	Part II: Daventry to Northampton	16
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (2)	11
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	6
Thomas Pennant	Northampton to Gothurst	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	5
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	5
Robert Gammage	Becoming a Chartist speaker, and first leaving Northampton in 1840	5
Karl Moritz	Chapter 12: Derbyshire to Northampton	5
Robert Gammage	Gammage's first letter to the Chronicle	4
Robert Gammage	How and Why I Became a Chartist; Schooldays	4
Robert Gammage	On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast	4
Robert Gammage	Liverpool and London in 1842	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	2
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	2
Robert Gammage	Eight months in Sherborne	2
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	2
Robert Gammage	Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire	2
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	2
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	2
Karl Moritz	Chapter 13: Northampton to London	2
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	2
George Borrow	Wrexham and Llangollen	1
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	1
Daniel Defoe	Preface to Second Volume	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Coventry to London	1
Robert Gammage	Touring the Welsh border in 1852 and 1853	1
Robert Gammage	Travelling in the north in 1842	1
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	1
Robert Gammage	Ayrshire and Renfrewshire	1
John Wesley	1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	1
Thomas Pennant	Tamworth to Meriden	1
Thomas Pennant	Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches	1
Thomas Pennant	Towcester to Redborn	1
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	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
Hardingstone	3	2
Far Cotton	0	3
Delapre Abbey	2	2
Kingsthorpe	2	2
Abington	0	2
Dallington	0	2
Duston	0	2
Weston Favell	0	2
Wootton	0	2
Upton	2	2
Great Houghton	0	3
Boughton	1	2
Little Billing	1	2
Milton Malsor	0	3
Spelhoe	0	2
Rothersthorpe	0	2
Collingtree	0	2
Kislingbury	0	2
Little Houghton	1	3
Great Billing	0	3