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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wellingborough. You may be able to find further references to Wellingborough in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Wellingborough | market town and parish with railway station | Bartholomew |
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 Wellingborough 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. |
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William Camden | Huntingdon and Northampton | 3 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 1 |
Robert Gammage | How and Why I Became a Chartist; Schooldays | 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 |
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Great Harrowden | 1 | 3 |
Finedon | 2 | 2 |
Hamfordshoe | 0 | 2 |
Little Harrowden | 0 | 3 |
Irchester | 0 | 2 |
Wilby | 0 | 3 |
Isham | 0 | 2 |
Irthlingborough | 0 | 2 |
Great Doddington | 0 | 2 |
Knuston | 0 | 2 |
Hardwick | 0 | 2 |
Orlingbury | 0 | 3 |
Burton Latimer | 1 | 2 |
Mears Ashby | 1 | 3 |
Wollaston | 0 | 2 |
Farndish | 0 | 2 |
Pytchley | 0 | 2 |
Earls Barton | 0 | 3 |
Little Addington | 0 | 2 |
Rushden | 0 | 2 |