A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about London. You may be able to find further references to London in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| LONDON | the metropolis of England | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with London.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CHRISTCHURCH-NEWGATE-STREET | a parish | Imperial |
| Moorfields, Little | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
| Whitefriars' Precinct | parish | Bartholomew |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. We treat London as a special case because it was constantly mentioned by travellers wherever they were. For example, James Boswell mentions London in every single chapter of his tour of Highland Scotland. Conversely, detailed descriptions of the metropolis seldom mention "London", only districts within the city. These links take you to the beginnings of detailed descriptions of London.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Hentzner | Arrival and London | 6 |
| William Adams | London in the Fifties | 1 |
| Henry Broadhurst | In Journeyings Often | 1 |
| William Camden | Middlesex and London | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs | 1 |
| Celia Fiennes | London, part 1 | 1 |
| Robert Gammage | Becoming a Chartist speaker, and first leaving Northampton in 1840 | 1 |
| Karl Moritz | Chapter 2: Entering London | 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 Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Glasshouse Yard | 0 | 2 |
| Charter House | 0 | 1 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 2 |
| Finsbury | 1 | 2 |
| Spitalfields | 12 | 5 |
| St Luke | 0 | 3 |
| Inner Temple | 0 | 1 |
| Norton Folgate | 0 | 2 |
| Clerkenwell | 2 | 2 |
| Tower of London | 0 | 6 |
| Saffron Hill | 1 | 2 |
| Borough | 0 | 2 |
| Furnivals Inn | 1 | 2 |
| Southwark | 44 | 6 |
| Middle Temple | 0 | 2 |
| Grays Inn | 3 | 2 |
| Lincolns Inn | 1 | 2 |
| St Katherine | 0 | 2 |
| Horsleydown | 0 | 2 |
| Holborn | 9 | 5 |