Loughborough, Leicestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Loughborough market town, parish and township Bartholomew
LOUGHBOROUGH a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
Loughborough (or Mid) Division, The parlimentary division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Knight Thorpe township Bartholomew
Woodthorpe township Bartholomew
WOODTHORPE 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 Loughborough 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.
William Camden Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln 3
Karl Moritz Chapter 12: Derbyshire to Northampton 2
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk 2
William Camden Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 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
Thorpe Acre 0 1
Knight Thorpe 0 2
Dishley 7 2
Garendon 2 2
Woodthorpe 0 2
Cotes 1 2
Hathern 0 2
Beaumanor 0 2
Stanford on Soar 1 2
Normanton on Soar 0 3
Barrow upon Soar 1 2
Woodhouse 0 2
Quorndon 0 2
Shepshed 0 2
Woodhouse Eaves 0 2
Alderman Haw 0 2
Hoton 0 2
Sutton Bonington 0 2
Maplewell Longdale 0 2
Long Whatton 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
LIEGANBURGE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
LOUGHBOROUGH 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).
LOUGHBOROUGH OR MID DIVISION THE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
LOUGH BORROUGH William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
LOUGH BORROW William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
LOUGHBORROW William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.