Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Westerham	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew
Westerham and Edenbridge	hundred	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Crockham Hill	ecclesiastical district and hamlet	Bartholomew
CROCKHAM-HILL	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 Westerham 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	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	8
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	2
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
Crockham Hill	0	2
Brasted	0	2
Limpsfield	0	2
Ide Hill	0	2
Sundridge	0	2
Tatsfield	0	2
Titsey	0	2
Four Elms	0	2
Oxted	0	2
Chevening	0	2
Chipstead	0	2
Edenbridge	0	2
Knockholt	0	3
Riverhead	1	2
Cudham	0	2
Hever	0	2
Crowhurst	0	2
Kippington	0	1
Tandridge	0	3
Sevenoaks Weald	0	2