Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Woburn Sands	ecclesiastical district and railway station	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 Woburn Sands 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	Tyringham to Woburn	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
Wavendon	0	2
Aspley Guise	1	2
Bow Brickhill	0	2
Walton	0	2
Husborne Crawley	0	2
Salford	0	2
Holcot	0	2
Little Brickhill	4	2
Woburn	15	2
Broughton	0	2
Milton Keynes	0	2
Ridgmont	3	2
Simpson	0	2
Great Brickhill	1	3
Moulsoe	0	2
Potsgrove	1	2
Woughton on the Green	0	2
Bletchley	7	2
Lidlington	0	2
Eversholt	0	2