Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Lawford like this:

Lawford, par. and vil., Essex, in NE. of co., on river Stour, 1½ mile W. of Manningtree, 2712 ac., pop. 814; P.O.; contains the seats of Lawford Hall and Lawford House.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Lawford by doing a full-text search here.

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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 Lawford 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.
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	1
Arthur Young	1784 Tour of Suffolk	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
Manningtree	7	2
Little Bromley	0	3
Mistley	6	3
Dedham	1	2
Brantham	1	2
East Bergholt	0	3
Ardleigh	1	2
Great Bromley	0	3
Bradfield	4	2
Stratford St Mary	3	2
Dodnash	0	2
Langham	0	2
Little Bentley	0	3
Capel St Mary	0	2
Holton St Mary	0	2
Stutton	0	2
Elmstead	0	2
Bentley	1	2
Higham	1	2
Wix	0	2