Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Colchester	division	Bartholomew
COLCHESTER	a town, a district, and a division	Imperial
COLCHESTER, SUDBURY, AND HALSTEAD RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
St Botolph	parish and railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blatch Ground	hamlet	Bartholomew
SPITAL	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 Colchester 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 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	22
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: London to Bury St Edmunds	8
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	5
William Camden	Romans in Britaine (1)	4
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	3
Arthur Young	1784 Tour of Suffolk	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	2
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	2
Robert Gammage	Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire	2
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	2
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Yorkshire: West Riding	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to letter 1	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Robert Gammage	Eight months in Sherborne	1
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	1
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	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
Hythe	0	2
Mile End	0	2
Greenstead	0	2
Lexden	0	3
Shrub End	0	1
Blackheath	0	1
Berechurch	0	2
East Donyland	0	3
Wivenhoe	4	3
Stanway	0	1
Stanway All Saints	0	1
West Bergholt	0	3
Ardleigh	1	2
Abberton	0	2
Great Horkesley	0	2
Elmstead	0	2
Layer de la Haye	0	2
Fingringhoe	0	2
Boxted	1	2
Langham	0	2