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 Andover. You may be able to find further references to Andover in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Andover | hundred | Bartholomew |
| ANDOVER | a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, a hundred, and a division | Imperial |
| Andover (or Western) Division | parliamentary division | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Andover.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CHARLTON | a hamlet | Imperial |
| ENHAM (King's) | a hamlet | Imperial |
| HATHERDEN | a hamlet | Imperial |
| LONDON (LITTLE) | a hamlet | Imperial |
| SMANNELL, or Swanhill | a hamlet and a chapelry | Imperial |
| WILDHERN | a hamlet | Imperial |
| WOODHOUSE | a hamlet | Imperial |
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 Andover 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 Cobbett | Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex | 5 |
| William Cobbett | Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst | 5 |
| William Camden | Wiltshire and Hampshire | 3 |
| William Cobbett | Aug. 24th to 28th, 1826: Burghclere to Petersfield | 3 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire | 3 |
| William Cobbett | Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband | 2 |
| William Cobbett | Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield | 2 |
| William Cobbett | Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester | 1 |
| William Cobbett | Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen | 1 |
| William Cobbett | Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere | 1 |
| William Cobbett | Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming | 1 |
| William Cobbett | Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester | 1 |
| Celia Fiennes | Wiltshire and Dorset | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Knights Enham | 0 | 3 |
| Smannell | 0 | 2 |
| Foxcott | 0 | 2 |
| Penton Mewsey | 0 | 2 |
| Hatherden | 0 | 2 |
| Penton Grafton | 14 | 2 |
| Upper Clatford | 0 | 4 |
| Goodworth Clatford | 0 | 2 |
| Tangley | 2 | 2 |
| Abbots Ann | 0 | 2 |
| Appleshaw | 7 | 2 |
| St Mary Bourne | 0 | 2 |
| Longparish | 1 | 3 |
| Hurstbourne Tarrant | 34 | 2 |
| Wherwell | 1 | 3 |
| Monxton | 0 | 3 |
| Pastrow | 0 | 2 |
| Fyfield | 0 | 2 |
| Hurstbourne Priors | 1 | 2 |
| Amport | 1 | 2 |