Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CAISTOR, or Castor	a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Audleby	hamlet	Bartholomew
AUDLEBY	a hamlet	Imperial
Clixby	township	Bartholomew
CLIXBY	a chapelry	Imperial
Fonaby	hamlet	Bartholomew
FONABY	a hamlet	Imperial
Holton-le-Moor	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
HOLTON-LE-MOOR	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Hundon	hamlet	Bartholomew
HUNDON	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 Caistor 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.
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	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
Clixby	0	2
Grasby	0	2
Nettleton	0	2
Cabourne	0	2
Owmby	0	2
Moortown	0	2
Searby	0	2
Holton le Moor	0	3
Rothwell	0	2
Great Limber	0	3
Somerby	0	2
North Kelsey	0	3
South Kelsey	1	3
Claxby	0	2
Swallow	0	2
Normanby le Wold	0	2
Cuxwold	0	2
Thoresway	0	2
Thornton le Moor	0	2
Cadney	0	2