Travel Journals

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 EGR4/8/3
  • Dates of Creation
      1838-1841
  • Physical Description
      16 x 10.5 cm (/1: 15.5 x 9.5 cm), 5 vols, marbled card covers.

Scope and Content

The five notebooks contain accounts of journeys through southern England, walking holidays in Devon and excursions on Dartmoor undertaken by William Grey while he was an undergraduate at Oxford. The journals contain notes on towns and villages visited, churches and other buildings, the landscape, and occurrences and people met during the journeys.

Acquisition Information

All items were received from Dunham Massey Hall on 8 May 1992; provenance: 3rd drawer down, chest of drawers F736 on Grey Gallery.