Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Clare	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Chilton	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHILTON	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 Clare 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	Essex and Suffolk	4
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	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
Poslingford	0	2
Stoke By Clare	0	2
Ashen	0	2
Ovington	0	2
Belchamp St Paul	0	2
Hundon	0	2
Cavendish	2	2
Pentlow	0	2
Risbridge	0	2
Wixoe	0	3
Tilbury Juxta Clare	1	1
Kedington	0	2
Belchamp Otten	0	2
Barnardiston	0	2
Ridgewell	0	2
Denston	0	3
Monks Risbridge	0	2
Stansfield	0	2
Stradishall	0	2
Glemsford	0	2