Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Redbourn parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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 Redbourn 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 Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 4
William Cobbett June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire 4
Thomas Pennant Towcester to Redborn 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
Gorhambury 5 2
High Street Green 0 2
Harpenden 2 2
Leverstock Green 0 2
Flamstead 4 3
Great Gaddesden 1 2
Hemel Hempstead 12 2
St Albans 125 4
Frogmore 0 2
Nash Mills 0 2
Two Waters 0 2
Sandridge 1 2
Apsley End 0 1
Wheathampstead 3 2
Markyate 4 2
Hyde 0 4
Humbershoe 0 2
Box Moor 0 2
St Margarets 0 2
Potten End 0 1