Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barrow-on-Soar	parish and township with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BEAUMANOR	a liberty	Imperial
Quorndon (or Quorn)	town and township	Bartholomew
Woodhouse	township and village	Bartholomew
WOODHOUSE	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Woodhouse Eaves	village	Bartholomew
WOODHOUSE-EAVES	a chapelry, with a village	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 Barrow upon Soar 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	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	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
Quorndon	0	2
Woodthorpe	0	2
Beaumanor	0	2
Charnwood	2	2
Mountsorrel	5	2
Woodhouse Eaves	0	2
Swithland	0	2
Woodhouse	0	2
Loughborough	10	3
Maplewell Longdale	0	2
Knight Thorpe	0	2
Sileby	0	2
Cotes	1	2
Thorpe Acre	0	1
Cropston	0	2
Alderman Haw	0	2
Thurcaston	0	2
Walton on the Wolds	0	2
Prestwold	1	2
Bradgate Park	0	2