Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NEWMARKET	a town, two parishes, a sub-district, and a district, all registrationally	Imperial
Newmarket (or Eastern) Division, The	parlimentary division	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 Newmarket 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	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	4
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	3
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	3
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	1
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	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
Exning	3	2
Landwade	0	2
Snailwell	2	2
Burwell	2	2
Fordham	1	2
Chippenham	0	2
Wood Ditton	2	2
Cheveley	0	3
Staploe	0	1
Stetchworth	0	2
Reach	0	2
Moulton	1	2
Swaffham Prior	0	2
Swaffham Bulbeck	0	2
Kennett	0	2
Dullingham	0	2
Staine	0	2
Ashley	0	2
Kentford	0	2
Freckenham	1	2