Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Whittlesey (or Whittlesea) market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
COATES a chapelry Imperial
PONDERS-BRIDGE a place 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 Whittlesey 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 Huntingdon and Northampton 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 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
Eastrea 0 2
Coates 0 2
Pondersbridge 0 2
Farcet 0 2
Benwick 0 2
Stanground 0 3
Ramsey 0 2
Ramsey St Marys 0 3
Thorney 4 2
Eye 0 2
Newark 0 1
Fletton 0 2
Eastfield 0 2
Peterborough 53 6
Holme 0 2
Doddington 0 2
Woodston 0 2
March 0 2
Dogsthorpe 0 2
Yaxley 0 2