Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
STAMFORD	a town, five parishes, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
STAMFORD AND ESSENDINE RAILWAY	two short lines of railway	Imperial
STAMFORD-BARON	a parish	Imperial
Stamford Baron St Martin	parish	Bartholomew
Stamford (or South Kesteven) Division		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 Stamford 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 7, Part 2: East Midlands	12
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	7
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire	5
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark	4
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	3
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	3
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	2
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	2
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	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
Little Casterton	0	2
Newstead	0	1
Tinwell	0	2
Wothorpe	0	3
Burghley House	0	2
Ryhall	2	2
the East	0	2
Great Casterton	5	4
Easton on the Hill	0	2
Pilsgate	0	2
Tickencote	0	2
Ketton	0	2
Essendine	2	2
Barnack	4	2
Collyweston	1	2
Wittering	1	3
Uffington	0	2
Pickworth	0	2
Carlby	0	2
Empingham	0	2