Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Farnham hundred Bartholomew
FARNHAM a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BADSHOT and RUNFOLD a tything Imperial
Badshot and Runford tithing Bartholomew
CULVERLANDS and TILFORD two tythings Imperial
Hale ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
HALE, or HEAL a hamlet and a chapelry Imperial
Hoghatch village Bartholomew
MOOR PARK the quondam seat of Sir William Temple Imperial
RUNFOLD a tything Imperial
RUNWICK a tything Imperial
Tilford village Bartholomew
TILFORD a chapelry Imperial
Upper Hale village Bartholomew
WRECKLESHAM a chapelry, with a village Imperial
Wrecklesham (or Wreclesham) ecclesiastical district and village 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 Farnham 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 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey 7
William Cobbett Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband 5
William Cobbett Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire 4
William Cobbett Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey 3
William Camden Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 2
William Cobbett Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester 2
William Cobbett Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen 2
William Cobbett Oct. 23rd to 27th, 1825: Chilworth to Winchester 2
William Cobbett Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst 2
Celia Fiennes Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 2
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Exeter to London 2
William Cobbett Jan. 8th to 11th, 1822: Sussex Journal 1
William Cobbett Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal 1
William Cobbett July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire 1
William Cobbett Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere 1
William Cobbett Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 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
Lower Bourne 0 2
Wrecclesham 0 2
Hale 0 2
Runwick 0 1
Badshot 0 2
Rowledge 0 1
Tilford 0 2
Ewshott 0 2
Aldershot 0 2
Tongham 0 2
Seale 0 3
Crondall 6 3
Bentley 0 2
Crookham 4 2
Dockenfield 0 1
Elstead 0 1
Frensham 1 2
Coldrey 0 2
Puttenham 0 2
Ash Vale 0 1