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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Guildford. You may be able to find further references to Guildford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | GUILDFORD | a town, three parishes, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | Guildford (or South-Western) Division | parlimentary division | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Guildford.
Place | Type of entry | Source | LOSELEY | a demesne | 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 Guildford 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 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 11 | William Cobbett | Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband | 7 | William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 4 | William Cobbett | Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex | 3 | William Cobbett | Oct. 23rd to 27th, 1825: Chilworth to Winchester | 3 | William Cobbett | Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey | 2 | William Cobbett | Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal | 1 | William Cobbett | Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen | 1 | William Cobbett | Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere | 1 | William Cobbett | Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Addenda to the first volume | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 1 | John Wesley | 1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield | 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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Stoke Next Guildford | 0 | 2 |
Stoughton | 0 | 1 |
St Catherine | 0 | 2 |
Merrow | 6 | 2 |
Artington | 0 | 2 |
Sutton | 0 | 2 |
Shalford | 1 | 2 |
St Martha | 15 | 4 |
Worplesdon | 0 | 2 |
Loseley | 0 | 1 |
Burgham | 0 | 2 |
West Clandon | 0 | 3 |
Compton | 0 | 2 |
Farncombe | 0 | 2 |
Send | 1 | 3 |
East Clandon | 1 | 3 |
Albury | 7 | 2 |
Godalming | 32 | 3 |
Normandy | 0 | 2 |
Shamley Green | 0 | 2 |