Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Old Romney parish Bartholomew
Romney, Old parish 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 Old Romney 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 Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent 2
William Camden Kent 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex 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
Midley 0 2
Ivychurch 0 3
Romney Marsh 0 2
Aloesbridge 0 2
Langport 0 2
Brookland 0 2
Brenzett 1 1
Cinque Ports 0 2
Hope 0 2
Lydd 2 2
Broomhill 2 2
Fairfield 0 2
New Romney 7 3
Snargate 1 2
Snave 0 2
St Mary in the Marsh 0 1
East Guldeford 0 2
Newchurch 0 3
Camber 0 2
Blackmanstone 0 2