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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ashby de la Zouch. You may be able to find further references to Ashby de la Zouch in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH | a town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Ashby de la Zouch.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Moira | village with railway station | Bartholomew |
Woodville | village with railway station | Bartholomew |
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 Ashby de la Zouch 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. |
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William Camden | Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln | 3 |
Arthur Young | 1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk | 3 |
William Camden | Dorset and Somerset | 1 |
William Camden | Huntingdon and Northampton | 1 |
Charles Wesley | Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester | 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 |
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Smisby | 0 | 2 |
The Boundary | 0 | 3 |
Blackfordby | 0 | 2 |
Willesley | 0 | 2 |
Packington | 0 | 1 |
Coleorton | 2 | 2 |
Ashby Woulds | 1 | 0 |
Woodville | 0 | 2 |
Moira | 0 | 2 |
Staunton Harold | 0 | 2 |
Hartshorne | 0 | 2 |
Calke | 0 | 2 |
Oakthorpe | 1 | 2 |
Normanton le Heath | 0 | 2 |
Donisthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Worthington | 0 | 2 |
Measham | 3 | 2 |
Ravenstone | 0 | 2 |
Ticknall | 0 | 3 |
Overseal | 2 | 2 |