Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dereham, East	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DILLINGTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Etling Green	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 East Dereham 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	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	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
Hoe	0	3
Yaxham	0	2
Westfield	0	2
Dillington	0	2
Swanton Morley	0	2
Gressenhall	2	2
Scarning	0	2
North Tuddenham	0	2
Mitford	0	2
Whinburgh	0	2
Mattishall	0	5
Worthing	0	2
Elsing	1	2
Beetley	0	2
Bylaugh	0	2
Garveston	0	2
Shipdham	0	2
Wendling	0	2
Longham	0	2
Thuxton	0	2