Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cranbrook	hundred	Bartholomew
CRANBROOK	a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Glassenbury	old moated seat	Bartholomew
GLASSENBURY	an old moated seat	Imperial
Milkhouse Street	village	Bartholomew
MILKHOUSE-STREET	a hamlet	Imperial
SISSINGHURST	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 Cranbrook 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 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	3
William Camden	Kent	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	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
Sissinghurst	0	4
Berkeley	0	2
Benenden	0	2
Frittenden	0	2
Selbrittenden	0	2
Goudhurst	1	2
Hawkhurst	0	2
Staplehurst	0	2
Biddenden	0	2
Kilndown	0	2
Lewisheath	0	1
Horsmonden	0	3
Flimwell	0	2
Sandhurst	0	2
Rolvenden	1	3
Marden	0	3
Headcorn	1	2
Mottenden	0	2
Hurst Green	0	2
Newenden	3	2