Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Staines	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew
STAINES, WOKINGHAM, and READING RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Yeoveney Hall	seat	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 Staines 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 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	5
William Camden	Middlesex and London	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Celia Fiennes	Moving to London	1
Celia Fiennes	To Herefordshire	1
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	1
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	1
George Head	East Riding	1
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	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
Stanwell	1	2
Spelthorne	0	2
Ashford	0	2
West Bedfont	0	2
East Bedfont	0	2
Laleham	0	2
Littleton	0	2
Heathrow	0	2
Thorpe	0	2
Wyrardisbury	0	4
Poyle	0	2
Longford	0	2
Horton	0	2
Sunbury on Thames	0	2
Harmondsworth	0	2
Feltham	0	2
Hatton	0	2
Colnbrook	0	2
Sipson	0	3
Shepperton	2	2