North Mimms, Hertfordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Mimms, North parish Bartholomew
MIMMS (NORTH) a parish Imperial
North Mimms 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 North Mimms 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.
Thomas Pennant Enfield to London 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire 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 Historical Gazetteer
South Mimms 3 3
Colney Heath 0 2
Potters Bar 1 2
Ridge 0 2
Hatfield 28 2
Bentley Heath 0 2
Essendon 0 2
Northaw 1 2
Shenley 0 2
Tittenhanger 0 2
London Colney 2 2
Newgate Street 0 1
Monken Hadley 8 3
Little Berkhampstead 0 3
Ponsbourne 0 1
Lemsford 0 2
Barnet 25 6
Bayford 0 2
Goffs Oak 0 1
New Barnet 0 1

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for North Mimms. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
MIMMS John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MIMMS NORTH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
NORTH MIMMS John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
NORTH MIMS Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
NORTHMIMS Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.