Sleaford, Lincolnshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
SLEAFORD a town, two parishes, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
Sleaford, Old parish Bartholomew
Sleaford (or New Sleaford) market town, parish and township, with railway station Bartholomew
Sleaford (or North Kesteven) Division parliamentary division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Holdingham township Bartholomew
HOLDINGHAM 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 Sleaford 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 1
William Camden Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 1
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk 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
Quarrington 0 2
Holdingham 0 2
Leasingham 0 2
Silk Willoughby 0 2
Kirkby la Thorpe 0 3
Evedon 0 2
South Rauceby 0 3
Roxholm 0 2
Swarby 0 2
North Rauceby 0 2
Flaxwell 0 2
Kesteven 0 2
Aswarby 0 2
Burton Penwardine 0 2
Cranwell 0 2
Haverholme 0 2
Kelby 0 2
Culverthorpe 0 2
Aswardhurn 0 2
Ruskington 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
NEW SLEAFORD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
OLD SLEAFORD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SLEAFORD 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).
SLEAFORD OLD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SLEAFORD OR NEW SLEAFORD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SLEAFORD OR NORTH KESTEVEN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SLEEFORD Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
SLEFORD 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.