Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Leighton	railway station	Bartholomew
LEIGHTON-BUZZARD	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Egginton	township	Bartholomew
EGGINTON	a chapelry	Imperial
Grovebury	manor	Bartholomew
GROVEBURY	a manor	Imperial
Heath	hamlet	Bartholomew
HEATH AND REACH	a chapelry	Imperial
Stanbridge	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
STANBRIDGE	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 Leighton Buzzard 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.
Robert Gammage	Gammage's first letter to the Chronicle	2
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Celia Fiennes	Bedfordshire	1
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	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
Grovebury	0	2
Linslade	0	3
Eggington	0	2
Billington	0	2
Grove	0	2
Stanbridge	0	2
Heath and Reach	0	2
Ledburn	0	1
Hockliffe	10	2
Soulbury	0	2
Slapton	0	2
Mentmore	0	2
Battlesden	1	2
Tilsworth	1	3
Wing	0	2
Potsgrove	1	2
Cottesloe	0	2
Horton	0	2
Great Brickhill	1	3
Manshead	0	2