Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kirton	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew
Kirton	parish, township, and village, with railway station	Bartholomew
Kirton	wapentake	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BROTHERTOFT	a chapelry	Imperial
Kirton Holme	hamlet	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 Kirton 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
The Friths	0	1
Simon Weir	0	1
Frampton	0	2
Sutterton	1	2
Algar Kirk	0	2
Shuff Fen	0	1
Wyberton	0	2
Boston	16	3
Swineshead	0	2
Wigtoft	0	1
Hall Hills	0	1
Brothertoft	0	2
Pepper Gowt	0	1
Ferry Corner	0	3
Fishtoft	0	2
South of the Witham	0	1
Skirbeck	0	3
Frith Bank	0	2
Royalty Farm	0	2
Drainage Marsh	0	2