Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Woburn	market town and parish	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 Woburn 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.
Robert Gammage	Gammage's first letter to the Chronicle	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	3
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	3
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	1
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	1
Thomas Pennant	Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches	1
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	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
Potsgrove	1	2
Husborne Crawley	0	2
Milton Bryan	0	2
Aspley Guise	1	2
Eversholt	0	2
Woburn Sands	1	2
Little Brickhill	4	2
Heath and Reach	0	2
Ridgmont	3	2
Battlesden	1	2
Wavendon	0	2
Bow Brickhill	0	2
Great Brickhill	1	3
Tingrith	0	2
Hockliffe	10	2
Holcot	0	2
Steppingley	0	2
Walton	0	2
Manshead	0	2
Lidlington	0	2