Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
LOUTH a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
Louth (or East Lindsey) Division, The Bartholomew
Louth Park township Bartholomew
LOUTH PARK a township 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 Louth 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 Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 1

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Keddington 0 2
Stewton 0 2
Brackenborough 0 2
Louth Esk 0 2
Raithby 0 1
Hallington 0 2
South Elkington 0 1
Legbourne 0 2
Little Grimsby 0 2
Fotherby 0 2
Little Cawthorpe 0 2
North Elkington 0 2
Tathwell 0 2
Alvingham 1 2
Welton le Wold 0 2
Haugham 0 2
North Cockerington 1 2
Yarburgh 0 3
North Reston 0 2
Little Carlton 0 2