Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MARY (ST.)	a parish	Imperial
SANDWICH	a town, three parishes, and a sub-district	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 Sandwich 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	6
William Camden	Kent	4
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to letter 1	4
Celia Fiennes	1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	3

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
Stonar	2	2
Worth	0	2
Richborough	0	2
Woodnesborough	0	2
Ham	0	2
Ash	0	3
Ebbs Fleet	0	2
Sholden	0	2
Eastry	0	3
Betteshanger	0	2
Guilton	0	2
Northbourne	0	2
Westmarsh	0	2
Staple	0	2
Pegwell	0	2
Minster	2	2
Knowlton	0	2
Deal	20	2
Great Mongeham	0	3
Elmstone	0	2