Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alfreton	parish and market town	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Birchwood	village	Bartholomew
BIRCHWOOD	a village	Imperial
Greenhill Lane	hamlet	Bartholomew
Ironville	village	Bartholomew
Outseats	hamlet	Bartholomew
OUTSEATS	a hamlet	Imperial
RIDDINGS	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Somercotes	village	Bartholomew
SOMERCOTES	a village	Imperial
Swanwick	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
SWANWICK	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 Alfreton 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	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	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
Somercotes	0	2
Birchwood	0	2
Swanwick	0	2
Riddings	0	2
Pye Bridge	0	2
Ironville	0	2
Butterley	0	2
Oakerthorpe	0	2
Pentrich	0	2
South Normanton	0	3
Pinxton	0	2
Codnor Park	0	2
South Wingfield	1	3
Selston	0	2
Ripley	0	2
Shirland	0	2
Codnor	0	2
Blackwell	0	2
Fulwood	0	2
Brinsley	0	2