Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
GAINSBOROUGH	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Gainsborough (or West Lindsey) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Morton	township and village	Bartholomew
MORTON	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Stockwith, East	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
STOCKWITH (East)	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Walkerith	township	Bartholomew
WALKERITH	a township	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 Gainsborough 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	2
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
George Head	Hull	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
Thomas Pennant	Wybunbury to Darlaston	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
Thonock	0	1
Lea	0	2
Somerby By Gainsborough	0	2
Morton	0	2
Bole	0	2
Beckingham	0	2
Saundby	0	2
Walkerith	0	2
West Burton	0	2
Knaith	1	2
Corringham	0	3
Blyton	0	2
Upton	0	2
East Stockwith	3	3
Greenhill and Redhill	0	2
Springthorpe	0	2
Walkeringham	0	2
Aisby	0	2
Pilham	0	2
Heapham	0	2