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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Shoreditch. You may be able to find further references to Shoreditch in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | SHOREDITCH | a quondam village, a parish, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Shoreditch.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HAGGERSTONE | a quondam hamlet, eight chapelries, and two sub-districts | Imperial | HOLYWELL | a parochial division and a sub-district | Imperial | Hoxton | district | Bartholomew | HOXTON | a quondam hamlet, seven chapelries, and two sub-districts | Imperial |
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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 Shoreditch 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 1: Overview and Suburbs | 5 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 | Thomas Pennant | St Albans to London | 1 |
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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 |
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Hoxton | 0 | 2 |
Haggerston | 0 | 2 |
De Beauvoir Town | 0 | 2 |
St Luke | 0 | 3 |
Kingsland | 0 | 2 |
Norton Folgate | 0 | 2 |
Finsbury | 1 | 2 |
Spitalfields | 12 | 5 |
Mile End New Town | 0 | 2 |
Bethnal Green | 6 | 2 |
Dalston | 0 | 2 |
Glasshouse Yard | 0 | 2 |
Canonbury | 0 | 2 |
Charter House | 0 | 1 |
Balls Pond | 0 | 2 |
Islington | 48 | 2 |
Whitechapel | 7 | 2 |
Aldgate | 0 | 2 |
Clerkenwell | 2 | 2 |
Pentonville | 0 | 2 |