Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alton	hundred	Bartholomew
ALTON	a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a division	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Thedden Grange	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 Alton 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	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	5
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	3
William Cobbett	Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband	2
William Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere	1
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	1
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	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
Shalden	0	2
Chawton	0	2
Holybourne	0	2
Neatham	0	2
West Worldham	0	2
Farringdon	0	3
Bentworth	0	2
East Worldham	0	2
Lasham	0	2
Hartley Mauditt	0	2
Norton	0	1
Froyle	1	2
Weston Patrick	0	2
Binsted	0	2
Medstead	0	3
Newton Valence	0	2
South Warnborough	0	3
Herriard	0	2
Bradley	0	2
East Tisted	5	2