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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ampthill. You may be able to find further references to Ampthill in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | AMPTHILL | a small town, a park, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district | Imperial |
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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 Ampthill 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 | Ampthill to Luton | 5 | William Camden | Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 2 | Robert Gammage | Becoming a Chartist speaker, and first leaving Northampton in 1840 | 2 | John Byng | A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May | 1 | Robert Gammage | Gammage's first letter to the Chronicle | 1 | Paul Hentzner | A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Towcester to Redborn | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Tyringham to Woburn | 1 |
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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 |
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Millbrook | 2 | 2 |
Maulden | 2 | 2 |
Flitwick | 0 | 2 |
Houghton Conquest | 5 | 2 |
Steppingley | 0 | 2 |
Redbornstoke | 0 | 2 |
Flitton | 2 | 2 |
Lidlington | 0 | 2 |
Marston Moretaine | 0 | 3 |
Pulloxhill | 0 | 2 |
Silsoe | 2 | 2 |
Haynes | 2 | 2 |
Ridgmont | 3 | 2 |
Westoning | 0 | 2 |
Clophill | 2 | 2 |
Eversholt | 0 | 2 |
Tingrith | 0 | 2 |
Wilshamstead | 0 | 2 |
Wootton | 0 | 2 |
Husborne Crawley | 0 | 2 |