Great Sampford, Essex : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Great Sampford Bartholomew
Sampford, Great parish Bartholomew
SAMPFORD (Great) a village and a parish 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
Freshwell 0 2
Little Sampford 0 3
Hempstead 0 2
Radwinter 1 2
Cornish Hall End 0 2
Little Bardfield 0 2
Finchingfield 0 2
Thaxted 3 2
Wimbish 0 2
Great Bardfield 0 3
Helion Bumpstead 1 3
Steeple Bumpstead 0 3
Castle Camps 1 2
Lindsell 0 2
Stambourne 0 2
Ashdon 0 2
Debden 0 2
Birdbrook 0 2
Great Easton 1 3
Toppesfield 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
GREAT SAMPFORD 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).
SAMPFORD 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).
SAMPFORD GREAT 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).

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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.