Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
All Saints, Poplar	parish	Bartholomew
POPLAR	a parish and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blackwall	district and railway station	Bartholomew
BLACKWALL	a hamlet	Imperial
Millwall	ecclesiastical district	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 Poplar 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs	4
Celia Fiennes	1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover	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
Blackwall	0	2
Canning Town	0	3
the Isle of Dogs	0	3
Bow Common	0	1
Limehouse	10	2
Tower Hamlets	0	2
Millwall	0	1
Ratcliffe	8	2
Bromley	0	2
Bow	1	2
Mile End	0	3
Stepney	5	2
Stratford Marsh	0	1
Shadwell	2	2
Greenwich	33	3
Old Ford	0	2
Rotherhithe	0	2
West Ham	2	3
Silvertown	0	2
Plaistow	0	2