Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Godalming	hundred	Bartholomew
GODALMING	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Binscomb	tithing	Bartholomew
BINSCOMB	a tything	Imperial
Busbridge	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BUSHBRIDGE	a chapelry	Imperial
CATSHALL	a tything	Imperial
Catshall, or Catteshall	tithing	Bartholomew
Deanshold	tithing	Bartholomew
DEANSHOLD	a tything	Imperial
EASHING (High and Low)	two tythings	Imperial
Eashing, Upper and Lower	2 hamlets	Bartholomew
FARNCOMB	a tything and a chapelry	Imperial
Hurtmore	place	Bartholomew
HURTMORE	a hamlet	Imperial
LABOURN	a tything	Imperial
Shackleford	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
SHACKLEFORD	a chapelry	Imperial
TUESLEY	a tything	Imperial

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 Godalming 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	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	6
William Cobbett	Nov. 12th to 20th, 1825: Petersfield to Kensington	6
William Cobbett	Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband	3
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 23rd to 27th, 1825: Chilworth to Winchester	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	2
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Dec. 10th to 24th, 1821: Norfolk and Suffolk Journal	1
William Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	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
Farncombe	0	2
Busbridge	0	1
Eashing	0	2
Loseley	0	1
Shackleford	0	2
Milford	0	2
Compton	0	2
Artington	0	2
Shalford	1	2
St Catherine	0	2
Peper Harow	0	2
Bramley	0	2
Waverley	6	2
Puttenham	0	2
Grafham	0	2
Wanborough	0	2
Witley	0	2
Shamley Green	0	2
Wormley	0	1
Hambledon	2	2