Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hampton	parish, township, and village with railway station	Bartholomew
HAMPTON-WICK	a hamlet and a chapelry	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HAMPTON COURT	a royal palace	Imperial
Hampton, New	village	Bartholomew
Hampton Wick	township and hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
New Hampton	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 Hampton 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	Middlesex and London	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband	1
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	1
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	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
West Molesey	0	3
East Molesey	2	4
Hampton Hill	0	3
Hampton Court	0	2
Bushy Park	0	2
Ember	0	2
Teddington	0	2
Hanworth	1	2
Kempton Park	0	2
Fulwell	0	2
Weston Green	0	2
Strawberry Hill	0	2
Kingston upon Thames	21	4
Ham	1	3
Surbiton	0	2
Twickenham	3	2
Whitton	0	2
Norbiton	0	1
Long Ditton	0	3
Hatch	0	2