A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Towcester. You may be able to find further references to Towcester in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Towcester | market town and parish with railway station | Bartholomew | Towcester | hundred | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Towcester.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Caldecot | hamlet | Bartholomew | CALDECOTE | a hamlet | Imperial | Handley | hamlet | Bartholomew | HANDLEY | a hamlet | Imperial | Woodburcote | hamlet | Bartholomew | WOOD-BURCOTE | a hamlet | Imperial |
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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 Towcester 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. | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire | 6 | William Camden | Huntingdon and Northampton | 5 | Thomas Pennant | Towcester to Redborn | 5 | Robert Gammage | Gammage's first letter to the Chronicle | 4 | Thomas Pennant | Part II: Daventry to Northampton | 2 | William Camden | Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 | John Wesley | 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches | 1 | Arthur Young | 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham | 1 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Greens Norton | 3 | 3 |
| Easton Neston | 2 | 2 |
| Bradden | 0 | 2 |
| Abthorpe | 0 | 2 |
| Paulerspury | 1 | 2 |
| Tiffield | 0 | 2 |
| Silverstone | 0 | 2 |
| Shutlanger | 0 | 2 |
| Slapton | 0 | 2 |
| Whittlebury | 2 | 3 |
| Stoke Bruerne | 0 | 2 |
| Alderton | 0 | 2 |
| Pattishall | 3 | 2 |
| Cold Higham | 0 | 3 |
| Blakesley | 0 | 2 |
| Woodend | 0 | 2 |
| Blisworth | 7 | 2 |
| Gayton | 0 | 2 |
| Luffield Abbey | 1 | 2 |
| Wappenham | 2 | 2 |
