Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Potters Bar	ecclesiastical district and village with railway station	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 Potters Bar 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.
Thomas Pennant	Enfield to London	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
South Mimms	3	3
Bentley Heath	0	2
Monken Hadley	8	3
Barnet	23	6
Ridge	0	2
North Mimms	3	3
Shenley	0	2
Arkley	0	1
New Barnet	0	1
Northaw	1	2
East Barnet	0	3
Trent	0	3
Elstree	1	2
Boreham Wood	0	1
Totteridge	1	2
Colney Heath	0	2
Highwood Hill	0	2
Whetstone	3	2
London Colney	2	2
Woodside Park	0	1