Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NUNEATON	a town, a parish, and a district	Imperial
Nuneaton (or North-Eastern) Division		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Attleborough	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
ATTLEBOROUGH	a chapelry	Imperial
Stockingford	ecclesiastical district and village with railway station	Bartholomew
STOCKINGFORD	a chapelry, with a straggling 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 Nuneaton 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	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	2
Thomas Pennant	Coventry	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
Chilvers Coton	2	2
Attleborough	0	2
Stockingford	0	2
Griff	0	2
Arbury	0	3
Weddington	0	2
Marston Jabbett	0	2
Caldecote	0	2
Hartshill	0	2
Sole End	0	2
Bedworth	0	2
Lindley	0	2
Astley	1	2
Higham on the Hill	0	2
Bulkington	0	2
Stretton Baskerville	0	2
Fenny Drayton	0	3
Mancetter	8	3
Oldbury	0	2
Exhall	0	2