Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Great Yarmouth	municipal borough and parish	Bartholomew
YARMOUTH, or Great Yarmouth	a town, a parish, and a district	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 Great Yarmouth 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	22
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	6
William Cobbett	Dec. 10th to 24th, 1821: Norfolk and Suffolk Journal	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	3
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: London to Bury St Edmunds	1
George Head	Hull	1
George Head	North Riding	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	1
Arthur Young	1784 Tour of Suffolk	1
Arthur Young	21st to 30th September 1776: Cork and Kerry	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
Southtown	0	5
Gorleston	2	2
Bradwell	0	2
Burgh Castle	3	2
Belton	0	2
Hopton on Sea	0	1
Runham	0	2
Caister Next Yarmouth	3	3
Mautby	0	2
Lound	0	2
Ashby	0	2
Fritton	0	2
Corton	0	2
Reedham	0	2
Halvergate	0	2
Wickhampton	0	2
Herringby	0	2
Filby	0	2
Ormesby St Margaret	1	3
Thrigby	0	2