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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Clacton. You may be able to find further references to Clacton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Clacton, Great | parish | Bartholomew |
| CLACTON (Great) | a parish | Imperial |
| Clacton-on-Sea | watering-place and railway station | Bartholomew |
| Great Clacton | parish | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Clacton.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Magdalen Green | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| MAGDALEN-GREEN | a hamlet | Imperial |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Little Clacton | 0 | 3 |
| Little Holland | 0 | 2 |
| St Osyth | 2 | 2 |
| Great Holland | 0 | 2 |
| Weeley | 0 | 2 |
| Thorpe le Soken | 0 | 2 |
| Frinton on Sea | 0 | 2 |
| Great Bentley | 0 | 3 |
| Thorrington | 0 | 3 |
| Kirby le Soken | 0 | 3 |
| Brightlingsea | 0 | 2 |
| Beaumont | 0 | 2 |
| Tendring | 0 | 4 |
| Horsey Island | 0 | 2 |
| Moze | 0 | 1 |
| Little Bentley | 0 | 3 |
| Frating | 0 | 2 |
| Walton on the Naze | 1 | 2 |
| Alresford | 0 | 2 |
| Great Oakley | 0 | 3 |
The following appear as names for Clacton. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
| Name | Author | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CLACTON | 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). | |
| CLACTON 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). | |
| CLACTON ON SEA | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
| GREAT CLACTON | 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). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers: