Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
TENTERDEN	a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Birds Isle	hamlet	Bartholomew
Buckhurstden	place	Bartholomew
Festal, The	place	Bartholomew
SMALL-HYTHE	a chapelry	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 Tenterden 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	Kent	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	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
Smallhythe	0	2
Rolvenden	1	3
High Halden	0	3
Ebony	0	2
Wittersham	1	2
Oxney	0	2
Woodchurch	0	2
Stone	0	2
Biddenden	0	2
Blackbourne	0	2
Newenden	3	2
Losenham	0	2
Appledore	8	2
Benenden	0	2
Berkeley	0	2
Kenardington	0	2
Iden	0	2
Bethersden	0	2
Beckley	0	2
Smarden	0	2