Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Sandy	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Girtford	hamlet	Bartholomew
GIRTFORD	a hamlet	Imperial
Stratford	hamlet	Bartholomew
STRATFORD	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 Sandy 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.
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	7
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade	2
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark	1
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	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
Beeston	0	2
Everton	1	2
Upper Caldecote	0	3
Northill	6	2
Moggerhanger	4	3
Blunham	3	2
Wixamtree	0	2
Sutton	4	2
Tempsford	7	2
Tetworth	0	2
Potton	7	2
Biggleswade	38	4
Willington	1	2
Gamlingay	1	2
Old Warden	15	3
Great Barford	9	3
Roxton	4	2
Little Barford	1	2
Cople	4	2
Wrestlingworth	1	2