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A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Kings Lynn. You may be able to find further references to Kings Lynn in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Freebridge Lynn | hundred | Bartholomew | FREEBRIDGE-LYNN | a district and a hundred | Imperial | LYNN AND HUNSTANTON RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial | LYNN AND SUTTON-BRIDGE RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial | LYNN, KINGS-LYNN, or LYNN-REGIS | a town, a parish, three sub-districts, and a district | Imperial |
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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 Kings Lynn 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 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 12 | William Camden | Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 8 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 6 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk | 4 | John Wesley | 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life | 2 | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to letter 1 | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire | 1 | George Head | Hull | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Northampton to Gothurst | 1 | Arthur Young | 1st to 10th September 1776: Galway, Clare, Limerick and Cork | 1 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hardwick | 0 | 2 |
| South Lynn | 0 | 3 |
| West Lynn | 0 | 2 |
| North Runcton | 0 | 3 |
| Gaywood | 0 | 3 |
| North Lynn | 0 | 1 |
| Mintlyn | 0 | 2 |
| Clenchwarton | 0 | 2 |
| West Winch | 0 | 3 |
| Bawsey | 0 | 2 |
| South Wootton | 0 | 3 |
| Middleton | 0 | 2 |
| Wiggenhall St Mary the Virgin | 0 | 2 |
| Setchey | 0 | 2 |
| Tilney Cum Islington | 0 | 2 |
| Tilney All Saints | 1 | 2 |
| Wiggenhall St German | 0 | 3 |
| Wiggenhall St Peter | 0 | 2 |
| Castle Rising | 2 | 1 |
| Leziate | 0 | 2 |