Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Sittingbourne market town Bartholomew
SITTINGBOURNE AND SHEERNESS RAILWAY a railway 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 Sittingbourne 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.
John Byng A Tour into Kent, 1790 4
William Cobbett Dec. 4th to 5th, 1821: Kentish Journal 2
William Camden Kent 1
William Cobbett Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 4 - Dec. 30, 1736: Massachusetts, and back to England 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone 1
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
Bapchild 0 2
Tunstall 0 2
Rodmersham 0 2
Murston 0 2
Key Street 0 2
Milton Regis 2 3
Borden 0 2
Tonge 0 2
Bobbing 0 2
Bredgar 0 2
Lynsted 0 3
Kingsdown 0 2
Milstead 0 2
Newington 0 2
Swale 3 2
Teynham 2 4
Elmley 0 2
Iwade 0 2
Wormshill 0 2
Doddington 1 2