A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Eltham. You may be able to find further references to Eltham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | ELTHAM | a village, a parish, and a sub-district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Eltham.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Mottingham | township and village | Bartholomew | MOTTINGHAM | a hamlet | Imperial | SHOOTERS-HILL | an eminence, a hamlet, and a chapelry | Imperial |
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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 Eltham 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 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 5 | John Byng | A Tour into Kent, 1790 | 2 | Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol | 2 | William Camden | Kent | 1 | William Camden | Yorkshire: East and North Ridings | 1 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon | 1 | Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Coventry | 1 |
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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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| Mottingham | 0 | 2 |
| Shooters Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Lee | 0 | 2 |
| Grove Park | 0 | 1 |
| Kidbrooke | 0 | 2 |
| Halfway Street | 0 | 2 |
| Charlton | 3 | 8 |
| Blackheath | 0 | 2 |
| Sidcup | 0 | 2 |
| East Wickham | 0 | 2 |
| Welling | 0 | 2 |
| Westcombe Park | 0 | 2 |
| Lamorbey | 0 | 3 |
| Lewisham | 12 | 2 |
| Plaistow | 0 | 2 |
| Chislehurst | 0 | 2 |
| Plumstead | 0 | 2 |
| Woolwich | 8 | 2 |
| Rushey Green | 0 | 2 |