Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Quainton (or Quinton)	parish, township, and village	Bartholomew
Queynton		Bartholomew
Quinton		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DEREHAM	a village	Imperial
DODDERSHALL	a hamlet	Imperial
Shipton Lee	township	Bartholomew
SHIPTON-LEE	a hamlet	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 Quainton 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	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
Shipton Lee	0	2
Doddershall	0	2
Denham	0	2
Hogshaw	0	2
Woodham	0	2
Westcott	0	2
Waddesdon	0	2
Pitchcott	0	2
North Marston	0	3
East Claydon	0	2
Grendon Underwood	0	2
Kingswood	0	2
Middle Claydon	0	2
Wotton Underwood	0	2
Oving	0	2
Fleet Marston	0	3
Granborough	0	2
Upper Winchendon	1	2
Edgcott	0	2
Quarrendon	2	2