Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bow, or Stratford-le-Bow	parish and railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Old Ford	2 ecclesiastical districts	Bartholomew
OLD FORD	a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry	Imperial
Victoria Park	ecclesiastical district and 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 Bow 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.
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	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
Bromley	0	2
Bow Common	0	1
Old Ford	0	2
Stratford Marsh	0	1
Mile End	0	3
Victoria Park	0	3
West Ham	2	3
Stratford	0	2
Tower Hamlets	0	2
Hackney Wick	0	1
Stepney	5	2
Limehouse	10	2
Poplar	5	3
Canning Town	0	3
South Hackney	0	1
Ratcliffe	8	2
Blackwall	0	2
Bethnal Green	6	2
Homerton	0	2
Plaistow	0	2