Easton Neston, Northamptonshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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 Easton Neston 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.

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:

Names from historical writing

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

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.