Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
GODSTONE a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BLINDLEY-HEATH a chapelry Imperial
Felbridge village Bartholomew
Hedgecourt hamlet Bartholomew
HEDGECOURT a hamlet Imperial
Marden Park railway station Bartholomew
MARDEN PARK the seat 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 Godstone 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 7
William Cobbett Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen 4
William Cobbett Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex 2
William Cobbett Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey 2
William Cobbett Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent 1
William Cobbett Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey 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
Tandridge 0 3
Blindley Heath 0 2
Bletchingley 5 2
Crowhurst 0 2
Oxted 0 2
Outwood 0 1
Nutfield 1 2
Limpsfield 0 2
Horne 0 3
Woldingham 0 2
Burstow 0 2
Caterham 0 3
Chaldon 0 2
Lingfield 1 2
Dormans Land 0 2
Titsey 0 2
Redhill 0 2
Crockham Hill 0 2
Merstham 0 2
Horley 2 2