Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Erith	town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Erith.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Abbey Wood	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
ABBEY-WOOD	a hamlet	Imperial
Beadonwell	hamlet	Bartholomew
BEADONWELL	a hamlet	Imperial
Higham	hamlet	Bartholomew
HIGHAM	a hamlet	Imperial
Lessness	hamlet	Bartholomew
Northumberland Heath	hamlet	Bartholomew
NORTHUMBERLAND- HEATH	a hamlet	Imperial
Picardy	village	Bartholomew
PICARDY	a hamlet	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 Erith 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	2

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
Slade Green	0	2
Lessness	0	2
Belvedere	0	2
Crayford	2	2
Bexleyheath	0	2
Wennington	0	2
Dartford	11	2
Abbey Wood	0	2
Rainham	0	2
Bexley	18	2
Welling	0	2
East Wickham	0	2
Aveley	0	2
West Thurrock	0	3
Plumstead	0	2
North Cray	2	2
Wilmington	1	2
Lamorbey	0	3
Purfleet	1	2