Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Shoreham	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WOODLANDS	a chapelry	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 Shoreham 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.
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	2
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	1
Charles Wesley	May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	Jan: 15 - Apr. 29, 1748: Ireland, Wales and meeting future wife	1
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	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
Otford	3	2
Codsheath	0	2
Lullingstone	1	2
Halstead	0	2
Eynsford	0	2
Dunton Green	0	2
Chelsfield	0	2
Maplescombe	0	2
Woodlands	0	2
Kemsing	0	2
West Kingsdown	0	2
Greatness	0	2
Axton	0	2
Crockenhill	0	2
Farningham	3	2
Knockholt	0	3
Chipstead	0	2
Greenstreet Green	0	2
Swanley	0	2
Chevening	0	2