Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Mimms, South	parish	Bartholomew
South Mimms	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hadley Highstone	place	Bartholomew
Little Heath	hamlet	Bartholomew
Potters Bar	ecclesiastical district and village with railway station	Bartholomew
POTTERS-BAR	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Wrotham Park	seat	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 South Mimms 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	Appendix to the second volume	2
Thomas Pennant	St Albans to London	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
Potters Bar	1	2
Bentley Heath	0	2
Monken Hadley	8	3
Barnet	23	6
Ridge	0	2
North Mimms	3	3
Shenley	0	2
Arkley	0	1
New Barnet	0	1
Northaw	1	2
East Barnet	0	3
Trent	0	3
Elstree	1	2
Boreham Wood	0	1
Totteridge	1	2
Colney Heath	0	2
Highwood Hill	0	2
Whetstone	3	2
London Colney	2	2
Woodside Park	0	1