Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BUXTON	a small town, a chapelry, and a subdistrict	Imperial

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 Buxton 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 8, Part 2: The Peak District	14
George Head	The Peak District	11
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: The Peak District	5
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	3
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
George Head	Liverpool	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Fairfield	0	2
Burbage	0	2
Kingsterndale	0	3
Wormhill	2	2
Fernilee	0	2
Tunstead	0	2
Chelmorton	0	2
Blackwell	0	2
Taxal	0	2
Chapel En le Frith	1	2
Hollinsclough	0	2
Earl Sterndale	0	3
Flash	0	2
Peak Forest	1	2
Tideswell	11	2
Priestcliff	0	2
Wheston	0	3
Quarnford	0	2
Saltersford	0	3
Wildboarclough	0	2