Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Battlesden	parish	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 Battlesden 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	Towcester to Redborn	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
Hockliffe	10	2
Manshead	0	2
Milton Bryan	0	2
Potsgrove	1	2
Eggington	0	2
Chalgrave	0	2
Heath and Reach	0	2
Tilsworth	1	3
Toddington	3	2
Stanbridge	0	2
Woburn	15	2
Leighton Buzzard	7	3
Tingrith	0	2
Eversholt	0	2
Billington	0	2
Houghton Regis	0	2
Grovebury	0	2
Linslade	0	3
Little Brickhill	4	2
Great Brickhill	1	3