Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Blisworth parish, village, and railway junction 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 Blisworth 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.
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham 3
George Borrow Introduction; Norfolk to Chester 2
William Camden Huntingdon and Northampton 1
William Camden Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln 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
Tiffield 0 2
Gayton 0 2
Milton Malsor 0 3
Collingtree 0 2
Courteenhall 0 2
Roade 0 2
Easton Neston 2 2
Stoke Bruerne 0 2
Rothersthorpe 0 2
Shutlanger 0 2
Wootton 0 2
Quinton 0 2
Pattishall 3 2
Ashton 0 2
Kislingbury 0 2
Bugbrooke 0 2
Towcester 26 3
Preston Deanery 0 2
Alderton 0 2
Far Cotton 0 3