Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kimbolton	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 Kimbolton.

Place	Type of entry	Source
NEWTOWN	a village	Imperial
Stoneley	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 Kimbolton 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	3
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	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
Newtown	0	1
Tilbrook	0	3
Stow Longa	0	3
Pertenhall	0	2
Little Catworth	0	2
Easton	0	2
Great Staughton	1	3
Spaldwick	4	2
Catworth	0	2
Swineshead	0	2
Dean	0	2
Covington	0	2
Grafham	0	2
Little Staughton	1	2
Keysoe	0	2
Ellington	0	1
Leightonstone	0	2
Midloe	0	2
Woolley	0	2
Shelton	0	2