Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WATFORD	a town, a parish, and a district	Imperial
WATFORD AND RICKMANSWORTH RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
Watford (or Western) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cashio, or Cashiobury	hamlet	Bartholomew
Garston	hamlet	Bartholomew
Leavesden	village	Bartholomew

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 Watford 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	June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire	3
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	2
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	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
Cashio	1	2
Oxhey	0	2
Leavsden	0	2
Bushey	3	2
Croxley Green	0	2
Hunton Bridge	0	2
Langley Bury	0	2
Letchmore Heath	0	2
Batchworth	0	2
Rickmansworth	3	3
Abbots Langley	1	3
Aldenham	0	2
Radlett	0	2
St Stephen	1	3
Mill End	0	2
Northwood	0	2
Sarratt	0	2
Hatch End	0	2
Chorleywood	0	2
Kings Langley	1	3