St Lawrence, Kent : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
LAWRENCE (ST.) a village and a parish Imperial
St Lawrence Bartholomew
St Lawrence Thanet parish and railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Chilton hamlet Bartholomew
CHILTON a hamlet Imperial
Cliffs End, Great and Little 2 hamlets Bartholomew
CLIFFS-END (Great and Little) two hamlets Imperial
Coldswood hamlet Bartholomew
COLDSWOOD a hamlet Imperial
Haine hamlet Bartholomew
HAINE a hamlet Imperial
HERESON a hamlet Imperial
Holycondane hamlet Bartholomew
HOLYCONDANE a hamlet Imperial
MANSTON a hamlet Imperial
NEWINGTON a hamlet Imperial
OZENGELL a tything partly Imperial
PEGWELL a hamlet Imperial
POISONS a hamlet Imperial
POLEASH a hamlet Imperial
PUDDLEDOCK a hamlet Imperial
SOUTHWOOD a hamlet Imperial
Spratting Street hamlet Bartholomew
SPRATTING-STREET a hamlet Imperial
WHITEHALL a hamlet Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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 Historical Gazetteer
Ellington 0 2
Ramsgate 5 2
Pegwell 0 2
Manston 0 2
St Peter 0 2
Broadstairs 1 2
Garlinge 0 2
Northdown 0 2
Ebbs Fleet 0 2
Stone 0 1
Thanet 19 3
Margate 11 2
North Foreland 0 3
Kingsgate 0 2
Cliftonville 0 1
Acol 0 3
Minster 2 2
Westgate on Sea 0 4
Stonar 2 2
Richborough 17 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for St Lawrence. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
LAWRENCE ST John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST LAWRENCE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST LAWRENCE THANET John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.