Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hitchin	hundred	Bartholomew
HITCHIN	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Hitchin (or Northern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Langley	hamlet	Bartholomew
LANGLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Missenden	hamlet	Bartholomew
MISSENDEN	a hamlet	Imperial
Preston	village	Bartholomew
PRESTON	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 Hitchin 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	Appendix to the second volume	4
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	1
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June	1
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Celia Fiennes	Bedfordshire	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
Great Wymondley	1	1
Ickleford	3	3
Ippollitts	0	2
Holwell	0	2
Preston	0	2
Little Wymondley	0	2
Pirton	0	2
Letchworth	0	2
Willian	0	2
Offley	0	2
Norton	0	2
Graveley	0	2
Arlesey	0	2
Shillington	0	2
Langley	0	1
Chesfield	0	2
Bury	0	2
Upper Stondon	0	2
Stotfold	0	2
Baldock	15	2