Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SPALDING	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Spalding (or Holland) Division		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Fulney	hamlet	Bartholomew
FULNEY	a hamlet	Imperial
LONDON (LITTLE)	a hamlet	Imperial
Pode Hole	hamlet	Bartholomew
PODE-HOLE	a hamlet	Imperial
WICKHAM	a chapelry	Imperial
WINSOVER	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 Spalding 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	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	3
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	1
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	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
Weston	0	2
Cowbit	0	2
Pinchbeck	0	3
Wykeham	0	1
West Pinchbeck	0	2
Moulton Chapel	0	1
Moulton	0	2
Whaplode	0	2
Deeping St Nicholas	0	3
Elloe	0	2
Surfleet	0	2
Cressy Hall	0	1
Gosberton	0	2
Twenty	0	2
Holbeach Fen	0	1
Crowland	18	3
Whaplode Drove	0	2
Holland	0	2
Quadring	0	2
Fleet	0	2