Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Brancaster parish and fishing village 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 Brancaster 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 Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 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
Burnham Deepdale 0 2
Titchwell 0 2
Burnham Market 0 4
Burnham Norton 0 2
Choseley 0 2
Thornham 0 2
Burnham Sutton 0 2
Docking 0 2
Stanhoe 0 2
Burnham Overy 1 2
Brothercross 0 2
Burnham Thorpe 0 2
Holme Next the Sea 0 2
Ringstead 0 3
North Creake 0 3
Smithdon 0 2
Barwick 0 2
Bircham Newton 0 2
Sedgeford 0 2
Holkham 0 2