Kirby le Soken, Essex : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kirby Bartholomew
Kirby le Soken parish and village with railway station Bartholomew
KIRBY-LE-SOKEN a village and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Horsey Island Bartholomew
HORSEY ISLAND an island Imperial
Kirby Cross hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
KIRBY-CROSS a hamlet Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Horsey Island 0 2
Walton on the Naze 1 2
Thorpe le Soken 0 2
Frinton on Sea 0 2
Great Holland 0 2
The Naze 0 2
Moze 0 1
Great Oakley 0 3
Little Oakley 0 3
Beaumont 0 2
Little Clacton 0 3
Little Holland 0 2
Weeley 0 2
Ramsey 0 2
Dovercourt 0 2
Tendring 0 4
Harwich 32 3
Wix 0 2
Clacton 0 4
Wrabness 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Kirby le Soken. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
KIRBY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
KIRBY LE SOKEN 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:

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  • 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.