Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
FELAWS-HOUSES	an extra-parochial tract	Imperial
IPSWICH	a town and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BACK	a hamlet	Imperial
FORE	a hamlet	Imperial
WICKS-BISHOP	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 Ipswich 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 2: Harwich and Suffolk	34
Arthur Young	1784 Tour of Suffolk	7
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: London to Bury St Edmunds	6
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to letter 1	3
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	2
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	1
Daniel Defoe	Preface to Second Volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	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
Warren Houses	0	2
Thurleston	0	1
Westerfield	1	2
Rushmere St Andrew	0	2
Sproughton	0	2
Whitton	0	2
Wherstead	0	2
Alnesbourn Priory	0	2
Halfway House	0	1
Akenham	0	2
Purdis Farm	0	2
Tuddenham	0	2
Belstead	0	2
Playford	1	2
Bramford	0	2
Kesgrave	1	2
Claydon	0	3
Freston	0	3
Nacton	0	2
Foxhall	0	2