Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ALBANS (St.)	a town, three parishes, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial
St Albans (or Mid) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew
Vernlam (or Verulamium)	site of ancient Roman town	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SLEEP	a hamlet	Imperial
TITTENHANGER	a hamlet	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 St Albans 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	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	34
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	19
Thomas Pennant	In St Albans	15
Thomas Pennant	Towcester to Redborn	9
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	7
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	4
William Cobbett	June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire	3
Thomas Pennant	St Albans to London	3
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	3
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	2
William Camden	Middlesex and London	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	2
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	2
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	2
William Camden	Britaine	1
William Camden	Romans in Britaine (2)	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	1
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	1
William Camden	Northumberland	1
Charles Wesley	1738: Around London, and Oxfordshire	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	1
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Coventry to London	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 13: Northampton to London	1
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	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
Tittenhanger	0	2
Gorhambury	5	2
London Colney	2	2
St Stephen	1	3
Sandridge	1	2
Colney Heath	0	2
Redbourn	10	2
Radlett	0	2
Leverstock Green	0	2
Ridge	0	2
Harpenden	2	2
Shenley	0	2
Wheathampstead	3	2
Leavsden	0	2
Abbots Langley	1	3
Lemsford	0	2
High Street Green	0	2
Nash Mills	0	2
Aldenham	0	2
North Mimms	3	3