Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NEOTS (St.)	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hardwick, Monks	hamlet	Bartholomew
HARDWICK (MONKS)	a hamlet	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 St Neots 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.
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	8
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	6
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June	3
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	3
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Thomas Pennant	Northampton to Gothurst	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
Little Paxton	2	2
Eynesbury	3	2
Eaton Socon	19	2
Hail Weston	2	2
Little Barford	1	2
Southoe	1	2
Great Paxton	0	2
Midloe	0	2
Diddington	1	2
Toseland	0	3
Roxton	4	2
Abbotsley	0	2
Tempsford	7	2
Bushmead	0	2
Great Staughton	1	3
Offord Darcy	1	2
Croxton	1	2
Tetworth	0	2
Buckden	11	2
Colmworth	1	2