Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Prestwold	parish and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burton-on-the-Wolds	township	Bartholomew
BURTON-ON-THE-WOLDS	a township	Imperial
Cotes	township	Bartholomew
COTES	a township	Imperial
Hoton	township	Bartholomew
HOTON, or HOUGHTON	a township and 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 Prestwold 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	Northampton to Gothurst	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
Burton on the Wolds	0	2
Walton on the Wolds	0	2
Hoton	0	2
Leake	0	1
Wymeswold	0	3
Rempstone	0	2
Cotes	1	2
Seagrave	1	2
Stanford on Soar	1	2
Thorpe in the Glebe	0	3
Six Hills	0	2
Quorndon	0	2
Charnwood	2	2
Sileby	0	2
Costock	2	3
Woodthorpe	0	2
Barrow upon Soar	1	2
Willoughby on the Wolds	0	2
Mountsorrel	5	2
East Leake	0	3