Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
NUNEATON a town, a parish, and a district Imperial
Nuneaton (or North-Eastern) Division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Attleborough ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
ATTLEBOROUGH a chapelry Imperial
Stockingford ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew
STOCKINGFORD a chapelry, with a straggling village 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 Nuneaton 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.
William Camden Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 2
Thomas Pennant Coventry 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
Chilvers Coton 2 2
Attleborough 0 2
Stockingford 0 2
Griff 0 2
Arbury 0 3
Weddington 0 2
Marston Jabbett 0 2
Caldecote 0 2
Hartshill 0 2
Sole End 0 2
Bedworth 0 2
Lindley 0 2
Astley 1 2
Higham on the Hill 0 2
Bulkington 0 2
Stretton Baskerville 0 2
Fenny Drayton 0 3
Mancetter 8 3
Oldbury 0 2
Exhall 0 2