Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Boroughbridge	township and market town	Bartholomew

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 Boroughbridge 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 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	6
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire	3
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	1
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: York and Scarborough	1
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	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
Aldborough	7	2
Minskip	0	2
Grafton	0	2
Marton	0	2
Ellenthorpe	0	2
Milby	0	2
Langthorpe	0	2
Roecliffe	0	3
Arkendale	0	2
Staveley	0	2
Lower Dunsforth	0	3
Mulwith	0	2
Kirby Hill	0	4
Humberton	0	2
Upper Dunsforth	0	2
Myton on Swale	1	2
Skelton on Ure	0	4
Westwick	0	2
Great Ouseburn	0	3
Coneythorpe	0	2