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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Rochester. You may be able to find further references to Rochester in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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DUROBRIVIS, or Duroprovæ | Imperial | |
ROCHESTER | a city, a parish, and a sub-district | Imperial |
Rochester and Strood | railway station | Bartholomew |
Rochester Bridge | railway station | Bartholomew |
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 Rochester 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. |
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William Camden | Kent | 17 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 9 |
Celia Fiennes | 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover | 8 |
John Byng | A Tour into Kent, 1790 | 5 |
William Cobbett | Dec. 4th to 5th, 1821: Kentish Journal | 4 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 2 |
Daniel Defoe | Appendix to letter 1 | 2 |
William Camden | The Division of Britaine | 1 |
William Cobbett | Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 |
George Head | Selby and Goole | 1 |
George Head | The west coast of the Isle of Man | 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 |
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Borstal | 0 | 1 |
Strood | 0 | 2 |
Frindsbury | 0 | 2 |
Brompton | 0 | 2 |
Cuxton | 0 | 2 |
Wouldham | 0 | 2 |
New Brompton | 0 | 1 |
Upnor | 0 | 1 |
Chatham | 24 | 4 |
Luton | 0 | 2 |
Gads Hill | 0 | 2 |
Halling | 1 | 2 |
Shamwell | 0 | 2 |
Burham | 0 | 2 |
Higham | 0 | 2 |
Shorne | 3 | 2 |
Cobham | 1 | 2 |
Grange | 0 | 2 |
Merston | 0 | 2 |
Snodland | 0 | 2 |