Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
JOHN-THE-EVANGELIST (ST.)	a parish and a subdistrict	Imperial
MARGARET (ST.) WESTMINSTER	a parish and a subdistrict	Imperial
St Margaret and St John Westminster	parish	Bartholomew
WESTMINSTER	a city	Imperial
Westminster Bridge Station	railway station	Bartholomew
Westminster Division	division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tothill Fields	ecclesiastical district	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 Westminster 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster	14
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs	7
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	6
Karl Moritz	Chapter 2: Entering London	6
William Camden	Middlesex and London	5
Paul Hentzner	Westminster and Whitehall	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	4
Karl Moritz	Chapter 7: St. Paul's Cathedral	4
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	3
Karl Moritz	Chapter 5: Parliament	3
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	2
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	2
Charles Wesley	1738: Around London, and Oxfordshire	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	2
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	2
Karl Moritz	Chapter 4: Preaching and Pleasure Gardens	2
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	2
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	2
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	2
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	1
John Byng	A Tour into Kent, 1790	1
Gerald of Wales	Introduction	1
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	1
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	1
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	1
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon	1
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	London, part 2	1
George Head	Visiting Mull	1
George Head	Property and education on Guernsey	1
Paul Hentzner	Arrival and London	1
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 6: Around London	1
Thomas Pennant	Northampton to Gothurst	1
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	1
Thomas Pennant	August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	1
Arthur Young	Title and Preface	1
Arthur Young	19th to 30th June 1776: Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Westmeath	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
Charing Cross	1	4
St James	0	2
Tothill Fields	0	2
Waterloo	0	5
Strand	1	5
Duchy of Lancaster	0	1
Covent Garden	2	1
Victoria	0	1
Lambeth	9	2
Soho	0	2
Middle Temple	0	2
Vauxhall	0	2
Pimlico	0	2
Inner Temple	0	1
St Giles	1	3
Mayfair	0	4
Lincolns Inn	1	2
Belgravia	0	3
Holborn	9	5
Southwark	44	6