Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beaconsfield	parish and market town	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 Beaconsfield 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	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
William Cobbett	June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	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
Seer Green	0	2
Wooburn	0	3
Hedgerley	0	4
Penn	1	2
Coleshill	0	2
Loudwater	0	2
Dropmore	0	2
Tylers Green	0	2
Hedsor	0	2
Chalfont St Peter	0	2
Farnham Royal	2	2
Chalfont St Giles	0	2
Wycombe Marsh	0	2
Gerrards Cross	3	2
Penn Street	0	2
Chalfont	0	1
Bourne End	0	3
Cliveden	0	2
Burnham	2	3
Hitcham	0	2