Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
COWES	a town, two chapelries, and a sub-district	Imperial
West Cowes	local government 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 Cowes 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.
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	2
John Wesley	1729-36: Wesley as a Missionary to Georgia	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	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
Osborne	0	2
Medina	0	2
East Cowes	0	2
Gurnard	0	2
Northwood	0	2
Whippingham	0	2
Parkhurst	0	2
Wootton	0	3
Newport	10	2
Barton	0	1
Stone	0	2
Shide	0	1
Carisbrooke	6	4
Clatterford	0	2
Marwell	0	2
Haven Street	0	2
Calshot	0	2
Binstead	0	2
Blackwater	0	2
the Isle of Wight	50	4