Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Buckden parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Stirtloe hamlet Bartholomew
STIRTLOE, or Sturtlow 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 Buckden 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 6
John Byng A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark 1
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September 1
William Camden Huntingdon and Northampton 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 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
Diddington 1 2
Brampton 0 2
Southoe 1 2
Offord Cluny 0 2
Grafham 0 2
Midloe 0 2
Offord Darcy 1 2
Great Paxton 0 2
Little Paxton 2 2
Hinchinbrook 0 2
Ellington 0 1
Godmanchester 11 2
Easton 0 2
Hail Weston 2 2
Huntingdon 42 3
Great Stukeley 0 2
Graveley 0 2
Toseland 0 3
Great Staughton 1 3
Alconbury 3 2