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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Chichester. You may be able to find further references to Chichester in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | BARTHOLOMEW (St.) | Imperial | CATHEDRAL CLOSE | an extra-parochial place | Imperial | Chichester | rape | Bartholomew | CHICHESTER | a city, a sub-district, a district, a rape, and a diocese | Imperial | Chichester (or South-Western) Division | parlimentary division | Bartholomew | Newtown | parish | Bartholomew | NEWTOWN | an extra-parochial place | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Chichester.
Place | Type of entry | Source | KINGSHAM | a detached part of Pancras parish | 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 Chichester 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 Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 9 | William Cobbett | July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire | 7 | Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 7 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 5 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 3 | William Cobbett | Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey | 2 | Robert Gammage | On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast | 2 | William Camden | The Division of Britaine | 1 | William Camden | Wiltshire and Hampshire | 1 | William Cobbett | Oct. 23rd to 27th, 1825: Chilworth to Winchester | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands | 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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New Fishbourne | 0 | 2 |
Rumboldswyke | 0 | 2 |
Portfield | 0 | 2 |
Sennicotts | 0 | 2 |
Appledram | 1 | 2 |
Westhampnett | 0 | 2 |
Box and Stockbridge | 0 | 2 |
Donnington | 7 | 2 |
Hunston | 1 | 2 |
Lavant | 3 | 5 |
Oving | 0 | 2 |
North Mundham | 0 | 3 |
Goodwood | 0 | 2 |
Bosham | 6 | 3 |
Merston | 0 | 2 |
Tangmere | 0 | 2 |
West Stoke | 0 | 2 |
Funtington | 5 | 2 |
Halnaker | 0 | 2 |
Boxgrove | 0 | 2 |