A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about St Albans. You may be able to find further references to St Albans in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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ALBANS (St.) | a town, three parishes, a subdistrict, and a district | Imperial |
St Albans (or Mid) Division | parliamentary division | Bartholomew |
Vernlam (or Verulamium) | site of ancient Roman town | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with St Albans.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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SLEEP | a hamlet | Imperial |
TITTENHANGER | a hamlet | Imperial |
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 St Albans 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.
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 |
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Tittenhanger | 0 | 2 |
Gorhambury | 5 | 2 |
London Colney | 2 | 2 |
St Stephen | 1 | 3 |
Sandridge | 1 | 2 |
Colney Heath | 0 | 2 |
Redbourn | 10 | 2 |
Radlett | 0 | 2 |
Leverstock Green | 0 | 2 |
Ridge | 0 | 2 |
Harpenden | 2 | 2 |
Shenley | 0 | 2 |
Wheathampstead | 3 | 2 |
Leavsden | 0 | 2 |
Abbots Langley | 1 | 3 |
Lemsford | 0 | 2 |
High Street Green | 0 | 2 |
Nash Mills | 0 | 2 |
Aldenham | 0 | 2 |
North Mimms | 3 | 3 |