Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Whaddon parish, township, and village Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Whaddon.

Place Type of entry Source
Nash township Bartholomew
NASH a hamlet Imperial
Snelshall Bartholomew
SNELSHALL a place Imperial
Thornton cum Nash ecclesiastical district 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 Whaddon 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 Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 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
Nash 0 2
Tattenhoe 0 2
Little Horwood 0 2
Beachampton 2 2
Great Horwood 5 3
Shenley 0 3
Calverton 0 2
Thornton 1 2
Newton Longville 0 2
Mursley 0 3
Loughton 0 2
Wolverton 6 3
Thornborough 0 2
Fenny Stratford 6 2
Adstock 0 2
Stony Stratford 6 2
Bletchley 7 2
Bradwell 0 4
Swanbourne 0 2
Wicken 0 2