Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Grays Inn	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 Grays Inn 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 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs	2
Celia Fiennes	London, part 3	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
Furnivals Inn	1	2
Lincolns Inn	1	2
Holborn	9	5
Saffron Hill	1	2
Clerkenwell	2	2
Grays Inn Road	0	2
Middle Temple	0	2
Inner Temple	0	1
Covent Garden	2	1
Duchy of Lancaster	0	1
Charter House	0	1
St Giles	1	3
Strand	1	5
Glasshouse Yard	0	2
Bloomsbury	0	2
Soho	0	2
Finsbury	1	2
Charing Cross	1	4
St Luke	0	3
Pentonville	0	2