Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kirkby cum Osgodby	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kirkby	village	Bartholomew
Osgodby	village	Bartholomew

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 Kirkby 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	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	2

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
Osgodby	0	2
Kingerby	0	2
North Owersby	0	4
West Rasen	0	3
Usselby	0	2
Thornton le Moor	0	2
Middle Rasen	0	3
Walshcroft	0	2
Claxby	0	2
Holton le Moor	0	3
Toft Next Newton	0	3
West Lindsey	0	1
Newton By Toft	0	2
South Kelsey	1	3
Market Rasen	1	4
Glentham	0	2
Moortown	0	2
Normanby le Wold	0	2
Walesby	0	2
Bishop Norton	0	3