Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Finchley parish and local government district with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Browns Wells hamlet Bartholomew
BROWNS-WELLS a hamlet Imperial
North Finchley ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Whetstone ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
WHETSTONE a chapelry, with a village Imperial

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 Finchley 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.
John Wesley 1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners 1
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
Church End 0 2
Woodside Park 0 1
Hendon 1 2
Colney Hatch 1 2
Mill Hill 0 2
Friern Barnet 1 3
Golders Green 0 2
Whetstone 3 2
Totteridge 1 2
Muswell Hill 1 2
New Southgate 0 2
The Hyde 0 2
Highwood Hill 0 2
Highgate 2 2
Alexandra Park 0 1
Bounds Green 0 1
Hampstead 18 2
Dollis Hill 0 2
Gore 0 2
Cricklewood 0 2