Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CROYDON	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
East Croydon	railway station	Bartholomew
West Croydon	railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broad Green	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
NORWOOD-ALL SAINTS	a chapelry	Imperial
Norwood, South	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
NORWOOD-ST. MARK	a chapelry	Imperial
Norwood, Upper	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Shirley	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
SHIRLEY	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Southend	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
South Norwood	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Thornton Heath	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
Upper Norwood	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Waddon	railway station	Bartholomew
WADDON	a hamlet, with a r station and telegraph	Imperial
West Norwood	railway station	Bartholomew
Woodside	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
WOODSIDE	a hamlet	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 Croydon 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	Jan. 8th to 11th, 1822: Sussex Journal	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	4
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	4
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	3
William Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	2
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	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
Addiscombe	0	2
Selhurst	0	2
South Norwood	0	5
Shirley	0	2
Thornton Heath	0	2
Croham	0	2
Anerley	0	2
Elmers End	0	2
Beddington	5	2
Norbury	0	1
Upper Norwood	0	3
Crystal Palace	0	2
Penge	0	2
West Wickham	1	3
Selsdon	0	1
Addington	1	2
Gipsy Hill	0	2
Hackbridge	0	2
Beckenham	2	2
Wallington	0	3