Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DARTFORD	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a 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 Dartford 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.
Karl Moritz	Chapter 2: Entering London	3
William Camden	Kent	2
William Cobbett	Dec. 4th to 5th, 1821: Kentish Journal	2
John Byng	A Tour into Kent, 1790	1
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Celia Fiennes	1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover	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
Crayford	2	2
Slade Green	0	2
Wilmington	1	2
Hawley	0	1
Bexley	18	2
Stone	0	2
Erith	2	2
Sutton At Hone	0	3
Darenth	0	5
Bexleyheath	0	2
North Cray	2	2
Lessness	0	2
Greenhithe	0	2
West Thurrock	0	3
Swanley	0	2
Ruxley	0	3
Greenstreet Green	0	2
Belvedere	0	2
Lamorbey	0	3