Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Broom hamlet Bartholomew
BROOM a hamlet Imperial
Ireland hamlet Bartholomew
IRELAND a hamlet Imperial
Stanford hamlet Bartholomew
STANFORD 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 Southill 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 12
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September 8
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June 5
John Byng A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade 4
John Byng A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark 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
Old Warden 15 3
Shefford 8 4
Clifton 0 2
Chicksands 12 2
Campton 0 2
Upper Caldecote 0 3
Northill 6 2
Langford 1 2
Meppershall 2 2
Wixamtree 0 2
Henlow 5 2
Biggleswade 38 4
Upper Stondon 0 2
Haynes 2 2
Clophill 2 2
Upper Gravenhurst 0 2
Beeston 0 2
Astwick 0 2
Edworth 0 2
Cople 4 2