Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Billesdon	parish and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Goadby	township	Bartholomew
GOADBY	a chapelry	Imperial
Rolleston	township	Bartholomew
ROLLESTON	a chapelry	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 Billesdon 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.
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk	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
Frisby	0	2
Skeffington	2	2
Rolleston	0	2
Gaulby	0	2
Cold Newton	0	3
Houghton on the Hill	0	3
Ilston on the Hill	0	2
Tilton	6	2
Ingarsby	0	3
Noseley	0	2
Lowesby	0	2
Hungerton	0	3
Halstead	0	2
Kings Norton	0	2
Goadby	0	2
Tugby	0	2
Keyham	0	2
Stretton Parva	0	2
Marefield	0	2
Keythorpe	1	2