Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hastings	rape	Bartholomew
HASTINGS	a town, a district, and a rape	Imperial

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 Hastings 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.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	13
William Camden	Saxons, Danes and Normans	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	3
William Camden	Kent	2
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	1
William Cobbett	Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent	1
William Gilpin	Bristol to London	1
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	1
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	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
Silverhill	0	2
St Leonards	0	2
Ore	0	2
Hollington	0	2
Baldstrow	0	2
Crowhurst	1	2
Westfield	0	2
Guestling	0	3
Fairlight	1	2
Sidley	0	2
Battle	16	4
Brede	0	3
Bexhill	1	3
Catsfield	0	2
Sedlescombe	0	2
Pett	0	2
Gostrow	0	2
Rother	0	3
Whatlington	0	2
Udimore	0	2