Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ORFORD	a small town, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Raydon	hamlet	Bartholomew
RAYDON	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 Orford 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.
Arthur Young	1784 Tour of Suffolk	4
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	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
Havergate Island	0	2
Orford Ness	0	1
Gedgrave	0	2
Sudbourne	0	2
Butley	0	2
Chillesford	0	2
Boyton	1	2
Iken	0	2
Capel St Andrew	2	2
Wantisden	0	2
Tunstall	0	2
Aldeburgh	6	2
Hollesley	3	2
Dunningworth	0	2
Hazlewood	0	2
Snape	2	2
Rendlesham	1	2
Friston	0	1
Eyke	0	2
Blaxhall	0	2