Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ashby, Castle	parish with railway station	Bartholomew
Castle Ashby	parish and railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Chadstone	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHADSTONE	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 Castle Ashby 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	Northampton to Gothurst	5
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	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
Whiston	1	2
Cogenhoe	0	3
Grendon	0	2
Denton	0	2
Easton Maudit	1	2
Brafield on the Green	0	2
Yardley Hastings	2	2
Earls Barton	0	3
Strixton	0	2
Little Houghton	1	3
Ecton	1	2
Bozeat	0	2
Warrington	0	2
Wollaston	0	2
Great Doddington	0	2
Wymersley	0	2
Great Billing	0	3
Great Houghton	0	3
Horton	3	2
Little Billing	1	2