Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SLEAFORD	a town, two parishes, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Sleaford, Old	parish	Bartholomew
Sleaford (or North Kesteven) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Sleaford.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Holdingham	township	Bartholomew
HOLDINGHAM	a hamlet	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 Sleaford 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.
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk	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
Quarrington	0	2
Holdingham	0	2
Leasingham	0	2
Silk Willoughby	0	2
Kirkby la Thorpe	0	3
Evedon	0	2
South Rauceby	0	3
Roxholm	0	2
Swarby	0	2
North Rauceby	0	2
Flaxwell	0	2
Kesteven	0	2
Aswarby	0	2
Burton Penwardine	0	2
Cranwell	0	2
Haverholme	0	2
Kelby	0	2
Culverthorpe	0	2
Aswardhurn	0	2
Ruskington	0	2