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Traveller |
Section |
No. of Refs. |
William
Camden |
Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
|
36 |
Karl
Moritz |
Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford
|
23 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester
|
18 |
John
Wesley |
1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England
|
11 |
Karl
Moritz |
Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire
|
9 |
Celia
Fiennes |
Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester
|
8 |
William
Cobbett |
Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere
|
7 |
Charles
Wesley |
1738: Around London, and Oxfordshire
|
7 |
Charles
Wesley |
1750: Bristol and London
|
7 |
Henry
Broadhurst |
Blacksmith's Forge and Stonemason's Bench
|
6 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London
|
6 |
William
Camden |
Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln
|
5 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 2 - Apr. 30, 1739: London and Oxford
|
5 |
Karl
Moritz |
Chapter 9: Richmond to Windsor
|
5 |
George
Borrow |
Upon Plynlimmon
|
4 |
William
Camden |
Northumberland
|
4 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon
|
4 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol
|
4 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire
|
4 |
Robert
Gammage |
Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire
|
4 |
William
Gilpin |
London to Ross
|
4 |
Paul
Hentzner |
A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor
|
4 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Part II: Daventry to Northampton
|
4 |
Arthur
Young |
1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham
|
4 |
James
Boswell |
August 14th to 17th, 1773: In Edinburgh
|
3 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol
|
3 |
Charles
Wesley |
1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne
|
3 |
John
Wesley |
1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield
|
3 |
John
Wesley |
1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery
|
3 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches
|
3 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Gorhambury and Verulamium
|
3 |
George
Borrow |
Llandovery
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
September 25th to October 2nd, 1773: South east Skye
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
October 23rd to 26th, 1773: Inveraray
|
2 |
William
Camden |
The Division of Britaine
|
2 |
William
Camden |
Wiltshire and Hampshire
|
2 |
William
Camden |
Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex
|
2 |
William
Camden |
Huntingdon and Northampton
|
2 |
William
Cobbett |
Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere
|
2 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 4 - Dec. 30, 1736: Massachusetts, and back to England
|
2 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall
|
2 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester
|
2 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire
|
2 |
Paul
Hentzner |
Arrival and London
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland
|
2 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Tamworth to Meriden
|
2 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Tyringham to Woburn
|
2 |
George
Borrow |
Around Llangollen
|
1 |
George
Borrow |
Conversations in Llangollen
|
1 |
George
Borrow |
Around Anglesey (1)
|
1 |
James
Boswell |
Introduction
|
1 |
James
Boswell |
August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose
|
1 |
Henry
Broadhurst |
Introduction, by August Birrell, K.C.
|
1 |
Henry
Broadhurst |
In Journeyings Often
|
1 |
Gerald
of Wales |
Introduction
|
1 |
William
Camden |
Ireland (3)
|
1 |
William
Cobbett |
Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Mar. 9 - Aug. 30, 1736: Georgia
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Appendix to the second volume
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
To Herefordshire
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1698 Tour: Exeter to London
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
Another tour of the Midlands
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
Bedfordshire
|
1 |
Paul
Hentzner |
Westminster and Whitehall
|
1 |
John
Wesley |
1729-36: Wesley as a Missionary to Georgia
|
1 |
John
Wesley |
1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales
|
1 |
John
Wesley |
1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost
|
1 |
Karl
Moritz |
Introduction
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Nantwich
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Colwich to Beaudesert
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Coventry
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Towcester to Redborn
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Northampton to Gothurst
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh
|
1 |