Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Thornton Abbey	railway station	Bartholomew
THORNTON-ABBEY	a r station	Imperial
Thornton Curtis	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burnham	hamlet	Bartholomew
BURNHAM	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 Thornton Curtis 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	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
Wootton	0	2
Barrow upon Humber	0	2
Ulceby By Barton	0	2
Yarborough	0	2
Croxton	0	2
Goxhill	0	2
Barton upon Humber	6	5
New Holland	0	3
East Halton	0	3
Melton Ross	0	2
Newsham	0	1
Elsham	1	2
Worlaby	0	2
Killingholme	0	3
Kirmington	0	2
Bonby	0	2
Brocklesby	0	2
Barnetby le Wold	0	2
Horkstow	0	2
Saxby All Saints	0	1