Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aylesbury hundred Bartholomew
Aylesbury market town and parish Bartholomew
AYLESBURY, or Ailesbury a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a hundred, and a district Imperial
Aylesbury (or Mid) Division parliamentary division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
WALTON a chapelry 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 Aylesbury 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 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire 6
William Camden Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 2
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 2
Celia Fiennes Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1
Celia Fiennes Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester 1
Celia Fiennes To Herefordshire 1
Celia Fiennes Another tour of the Midlands 1
Paul Hentzner A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor 1
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham 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
Walton 0 2
Hartwell 0 2
Broughton 0 2
Bierton 0 2
Stone 0 2
Stoke Mandeville 0 2
Weedon 0 2
Quarrendon 2 2
Weston Turville 0 2
Hulcott 0 2
Hardwick 0 2
Fleet Marston 0 3
Dinton 0 2
Aston Abbots 0 2
Wingrave 0 2
Puttenham 0 2
Little Kimble 0 2
Whitchurch 1 2
Marston Gate 0 2
Aston Clinton 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
AEGLESBERG John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
AEGLESBURGE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
AILESBURY William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ALESBURY Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
ALSBURY Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
ALSEBURY Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
AYLESBURY 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).
AYLESBURY OR AILESBURY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
AYLESBURY OR MID DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
ELISBERIE 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.