Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LOWESTOFT	a town, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial
Lowestoft (or Northern) Division, The	parliamentary 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 Lowestoft 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 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	5
Arthur Young	1784 Tour of Suffolk	4
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	2
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	1
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	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
Kirkley	0	2
Oulton Broad	0	2
Gunton	0	2
Flixton	0	2
Carlton Colville	0	2
Pakefield	1	2
Blundeston	0	2
Lothingland	0	2
Corton	0	2
Gisleham	0	2
Burgh St Peter	0	3
Barnby	0	2
Somerleyton	1	2
Rushmere	0	2
Kessingland	0	2
Lound	0	2
Wheatacre	0	2
Mutford	0	4
Hopton on Sea	0	1
North Cove	0	3