Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ancaster	parish, village with railway station, and seat	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ludbrooke	hamlet	Bartholomew
Sudbrooke	hamlet	Bartholomew
SUDBROOKE	a hamlet	Imperial
Willoughby, West	hamlet	Bartholomew
WILLOUGHBY (West)	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 Ancaster 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	4
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	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
Barkston	0	2
Normanton	0	2
Honington	0	2
Wilsford	0	2
Carlton Scroop	0	2
South Rauceby	0	3
Kelby	0	2
North Rauceby	0	2
Syston	0	2
Kesteven	0	2
Caythorpe	0	2
Belton	0	2
Heydor	0	3
Byards Leap	0	2
Welby	1	2
Culverthorpe	0	2
Aisby	0	2
Fulbeck	0	2
Hough on the Hill	0	3
Londonthorpe	0	2