Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BARNWELL, or St. Andrew-the-Less Imperial
CAMBRIDGE Imperial
GILES (St.) a parish and a sub-district 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 Cambridge 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 16
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 16
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 7
Paul Hentzner A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor 6
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham 6
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley 3
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire 3
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Exeter to London 3
Arthur Young 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire 3
George Borrow Machynlleth 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland 2
Celia Fiennes Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester 2
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May 1
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 1
Charles Wesley 1750: Bristol and London 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone 1
Daniel Defoe Addenda to the first volume 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: York and Scarborough 1
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield 1
Robert Gammage Becoming a Chartist speaker, and first leaving Northampton in 1840 1
Robert Gammage Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2 1
Paul Hentzner Arrival and London 1
Paul Hentzner Westminster and Whitehall 1
Karl Moritz Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire 1
Thomas Pennant Part II: Daventry to Northampton 1
Thomas Pennant Luton to Hatfield 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
Flendish 0 2
Chesterton 0 3
Cherry Hinton 0 2
Trumpington 4 2
Grantchester 0 3
Coton 0 2
Teversham 0 2
Fen Ditton 2 3
Great Shelford 0 3
Impington 1 2
Milton 1 2
Barton 0 2
Girton 0 2
Stapleford 0 2
Hauxton 1 2
Madingley 0 2
Histon 0 2
Haslingfield 0 2
Horningsea 0 2
Fulbourn 2 2