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A comment on 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017).

Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern... by yesenadam on Sunday January 27, 2019 @01:16AM (#19010574)
It's about Celia Fiennes' Through England on a Side Saddle In the Time of William and Mary

"She travelled around England on horseback between 1684 and about 1703, "to regain my health by variety and change of aire and exercise". At this time the idea of travel for its own sake was still novel, and Fiennes was exceptional as an enthusiastic woman traveller."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Fiennes

Download her book as pdf, epub etc: https://archive.org/details/throughenglando00fiengoog

That 1888 edition is the first complete one.

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Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern... by barrkel on Sunday January 27, 2019 @08:25AM (#19011585)
If the name Fiennes brings to mind actor Ralph Fiennes and his cousin explorer Ranulph Fiennes, it's no coincidence: they are related.

Wikipedia has several overview pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fiennes_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes_fami...

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Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern... by yesenadam on Sunday January 27, 2019 @04:28AM (#19011057)
And I found this: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers/

Which has Celia's book (or most of it) with the locations marked on maps, and books by dozens of other early travellers around Britain.

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Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern... by 52-6F-62 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:53AM (#19011245)
That century was not a quiet one, either. It was a very important time for Scotland, and a bloody one at that.

Haven’t read through it yet but I wonder how far north she went

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