Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MELTON-MOWBRAY	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Melton (or Eastern) Division, The	parlimentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burton Lazars	township	Bartholomew
BURTON-LAZARS	a chapelry	Imperial
Freeby	township	Bartholomew
FREEBY	a chapelry	Imperial
Sysonby	township	Bartholomew
SYSONBY	a chapelry	Imperial
Welby	township	Bartholomew
WELBY	a chapelry	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 Melton Mowbray 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	2
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
Sysonby	0	2
Welby	0	2
Thorpe Arnold	0	2
Burton Lazars	4	2
Brentingby	0	1
Asfordby	0	2
Wyfordby	0	2
Kirby Bellars	1	2
Ab Kettleby	0	2
Scalford	0	2
Holwell	0	2
Frisby on the Wreak	0	2
Great Dalby	0	3
Wartnaby	0	2
Freeby	0	2
Saxelby	0	2
Little Dalby	0	3
Stapleford	0	2
Wycomb	0	2
Chadwell	0	2