Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
IVES (ST.)	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	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 Ives 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.
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	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
Houghton	0	2
Needingworth	0	2
Holywell	0	2
Woodhurst	0	2
Hemingford Grey	0	2
Wyton	0	3
Fenstanton	2	3
Fen Drayton	0	3
Old Hurst	0	3
Hemingford Abbots	0	2
Bluntisham	0	2
Pidley	0	2
Hartford	0	2
Hurstingstone	0	2
Broughton	0	2
Conington	0	2
Over	0	2
Kings Ripton	0	3
Swavesey	1	2
Fenton	0	2