Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Stowe by Gainsborough	parish, township, and village	Bartholomew
Stowe (or Stow in Lindsey)		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRANSBY	a hamlet	Imperial
NORMANBY	a township	Imperial
STOW, or Stowe	a parish	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 Stow 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	3
Thomas Pennant	Lichfield	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
Sturton By Stow	0	2
Willingham	0	3
Well	0	2
Bransby	0	2
Thorpe in the Fallows	0	3
Coates	0	2
Ingleby	0	2
Marton	0	2
Kexby	0	2
Brampton	0	2
Gate Burton	0	2
Torksey	2	2
Upton	0	2
Broxholme	0	2
Saxilby	0	3
Knaith	1	2
Cammeringham	0	2
Hardwick	0	2
Brattleby	0	2
Fenton	0	2