Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Stowe	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Amerton	place	Bartholomew
AMERTON	a township	Imperial
DROINTON	a township	Imperial
Grindley	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
GRINDLEY	a township, with a r station	Imperial
HIXON	a chapelry	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 Stowe 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.
Thomas Pennant	Stone to Stafford	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
Chartley Holme	4	2
Hixon	0	2
Gayton	0	2
Shirleywich	0	2
Gratwich	0	2
Weston under Trent	1	3
Fradswell	0	2
Kingston	0	2
Ingestre	8	2
Blithfield	3	2
Great Haywood	10	3
Field	0	2
Colwich	4	2
Shugborough	7	2
Lea Lane	0	2
Loxley	0	2
Tixall	8	2
Salt	0	2
Little Haywood	0	3
Milwich	0	3