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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Godmanchester. You may be able to find further references to Godmanchester in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Godmanchester | municipal borough, market town, and parish with railway station | Bartholomew |
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 Godmanchester 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. |
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William Camden | Huntingdon and Northampton | 7 |
William Cobbett | Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire | 1 |
John Wesley | 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War | 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 |
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Hemingford Abbots | 0 | 2 |
Offord Cluny | 0 | 2 |
Hinchinbrook | 0 | 2 |
Huntingdon | 42 | 3 |
Hartford | 0 | 2 |
Offord Darcy | 1 | 2 |
Sapley | 0 | 2 |
Hemingford Grey | 0 | 2 |
Graveley | 0 | 2 |
Brampton | 0 | 2 |
Hilton | 0 | 2 |
Papworth St Agnes | 0 | 2 |
Great Stukeley | 0 | 2 |
Wyton | 0 | 3 |
Houghton | 0 | 2 |
Buckden | 11 | 2 |
Fenstanton | 2 | 3 |
Papworth | 0 | 2 |
Kings Ripton | 0 | 3 |
Diddington | 1 | 2 |