Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Holbeach Fen like this:

Holbeach Fen, eccl. dist., Fleet. Gedney, and Holbeach pars., S. Lincolnshire, pop. 872.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Holbeach Fen by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Fleet 0 2
Whaplode 0 2
Elloe 0 2
Sutton St James 0 2
Moulton 0 2
Moulton Chapel 0 1
Weston 0 2
Whaplode Drove 0 2
Long Sutton 0 4
Tydd St Mary 0 3
Holbeach Hurn 0 1
Gedney Hill 0 1
Tydd St Giles 0 2
Sutton St Edmund 0 2
Holbeach 0 2
Wykeham 0 1
Holbeach Marsh 0 1
Cowbit 0 2
Newton 0 3
Spalding 6 3