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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Boroughbridge. You may be able to find further references to Boroughbridge in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Boroughbridge | township and market town | 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 Boroughbridge 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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Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 6 |
Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire | 3 |
William Camden | Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan | 1 |
William Camden | Yorkshire: West Riding | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: York and Scarborough | 1 |
John Wesley | 1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles | 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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Aldborough | 7 | 2 |
Minskip | 0 | 2 |
Grafton | 0 | 2 |
Marton | 0 | 2 |
Ellenthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Milby | 0 | 2 |
Langthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Roecliffe | 0 | 3 |
Arkendale | 0 | 2 |
Staveley | 0 | 2 |
Lower Dunsforth | 0 | 3 |
Mulwith | 0 | 2 |
Kirby Hill | 0 | 4 |
Humberton | 0 | 2 |
Upper Dunsforth | 0 | 2 |
Myton on Swale | 1 | 2 |
Skelton on Ure | 0 | 4 |
Westwick | 0 | 2 |
Great Ouseburn | 0 | 3 |
Coneythorpe | 0 | 2 |