St Neots, Huntingdonshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
NEOTS (St.) a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
St Neot's market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Hardwick, Monks hamlet Bartholomew
HARDWICK (MONKS) 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 St Neots 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.
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May 8
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham 6
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June 3
William Camden Huntingdon and Northampton 3
John Byng A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 1
Thomas Pennant Northampton to Gothurst 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
Little Paxton 2 2
Eynesbury 3 2
Eaton Socon 22 2
Hail Weston 2 2
Little Barford 1 2
Wyboston 4 2
Southoe 1 2
Great Paxton 0 2
Midloe 0 2
Diddington 1 2
Toseland 0 3
Roxton 4 2
Abbotsley 0 2
Tempsford 7 2
Bushmead 2 2
Great Staughton 1 3
Offord Darcy 1 2
Croxton 1 2
Tetworth 0 2
Buckden 11 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for St Neots. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
AINULPHSBURY William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
NEOTS ST John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
SAINT NEEDS William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
SAINT NEOTS William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
ST NEOTS 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).

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.