Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Sheire	railway station	Bartholomew
Shere (or Shiere)	parish	Bartholomew
Shiere		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burrows Lea	seat	Bartholomew
Felday	village	Bartholomew
Gomshall	village	Bartholomew
GOMSHALL	a hamlet	Imperial
Pislake	village	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 Shere 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	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	4
William Cobbett	Oct. 19th to 21st, 1825: Across 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
Gomshall	0	2
Farley Green	0	2
Albury	7	2
Holmbury	0	2
Wotton	1	3
Abinger	0	2
Blackheath	0	2
St Martha	15	4
Wonersh	1	2
Shamley Green	0	2
East Clandon	1	3
Westcott	0	2
Leith Hill	0	2
West Clandon	0	3
Milton Street	0	2
West Horsley	0	3
East Horsley	0	3
Coldharbour	0	2
Merrow	6	2
Effingham	1	3