Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hammonds End	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAMMONDS-END	a hamlet	Imperial
Hatching Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
HATCHING-GREEN	a hamlet	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 Harpenden 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.
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	2

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
Wheathampstead	3	2
Redbourn	10	2
Hyde	0	4
Sandridge	1	2
Kimpton	0	2
Flamstead	4	3
Gorhambury	5	2
Ayot St Lawrence	0	1
St Albans	125	4
Ayot St Peter	0	1
Markyate	4	2
St Pauls Walden	0	2
Whitwell	0	3
Lemsford	0	2
Humbershoe	0	2
High Street Green	0	2
Great Gaddesden	1	2
Kings Walden	0	2
Leverstock Green	0	2
Codicote	0	2