Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HUNTINGDON	a town, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Huntingdon (or Southern) Division, The	parlimentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
TOWTHORPE	a township	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 Huntingdon 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 Cobbett	Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal	10
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	3
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	3
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire	3
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	2
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	2
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Robert Gammage	Becoming a Chartist speaker, and first leaving Northampton in 1840	1
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
Thomas Pennant	Towcester to Redborn	1
Thomas Pennant	Northampton to Gothurst	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
Sapley	0	2
Hinchinbrook	0	2
Hartford	0	2
Great Stukeley	0	2
Godmanchester	11	2
Kings Ripton	0	3
Wyton	0	3
Little Stukeley	0	2
Brampton	0	2
Hemingford Abbots	0	2
Houghton	0	2
Offord Cluny	0	2
Abbots Ripton	0	3
Alconbury	3	2
Broughton	0	2
Hemingford Grey	0	2
Buckden	11	2
Little Raveley	0	2
Offord Darcy	1	2
Alconbury Weston	0	2