Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BYRON	a subdistrict	Imperial
NOTTINGHAM	a town, three parishes, an extra-parochial tract, and a district	Imperial
NOTTINGHAM and GRANTHAM railway	a railway	Imperial
NOTTINGHAM and LINCOLN railway	a railway	Imperial
NOTTINGHAM and MANSFIELD railway	a railway	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 Nottingham 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 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	23
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	9
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	6
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	3
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	3
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: York and Scarborough	3
Karl Moritz	Chapter 12: Derbyshire to Northampton	3
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	2
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	2
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	2
Thomas Pennant	Northampton to Gothurst	2
William Cobbett	June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol	1
Robert Gammage	Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire	1
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	1
Thomas Pennant	Tamworth to Meriden	1
Thomas Pennant	Coventry	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
Hyson Green	0	2
Radford	0	2
New Basford	0	2
The Park	0	1
Basford	0	2
Carrington	0	2
Standard Hill	0	1
Brewhouse Yard	0	2
Lenton	0	2
Mapperley	0	2
Wollaton	5	2
Cinderhill	0	2
Bilborough	0	2
Sneinton	0	2
Daybrook	0	1
Bulwell	0	2
Beeston	0	2
Wilford	0	2
Adbolton	0	2
Strelley	2	2