Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Esher	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CLAREMONT	a seat	Imperial
Claremont Park	seat	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 Esher 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	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband	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
Thames Ditton	0	2
Claygate	0	2
Weston Green	0	2
Claremont	0	2
Ember	0	2
Long Ditton	0	3
Hook	0	2
Elmbridge	0	2
East Molesey	2	4
Chessington	0	2
Hersham	0	2
Hampton Court	0	2
Oxshott	0	2
West Molesey	0	3
Surbiton	0	2
Tolworth	0	2
Walton upon Thames	0	2
Horton	0	2
Hampton	4	3
Stoke Dabernon	1	2