Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SEVENOAKS	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
SEVENOAKS, MAIDSTONE, and TUNBRIDGE RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kippington	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
KNOLE	a noble mansion	Imperial
MONTREAL	the seat	Imperial
NESS (Great)	a hamlet	Imperial
RIVERHEAD	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Weald	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
WEALD	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 Sevenoaks 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 Cobbett	Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal	4
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	2
Robert Gammage	On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast	2
William Camden	Kent	1
William Cobbett	Jan. 8th to 11th, 1822: Sussex Journal	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	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
Knole	0	2
Kippington	0	1
Riverhead	1	2
Greatness	0	2
Seal	0	2
Chevening	0	2
Underriver	0	2
Chipstead	0	2
Sevenoaks Weald	0	2
Codsheath	0	2
Dunton Green	0	2
Otford	3	2
Kemsing	0	2
Sundridge	0	2
Ivy Hatch	0	2
Ightham	0	2
Oldbury	0	2
Ide Hill	0	2
Shipbourne	0	2
Hildenborough	0	2