Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hornsey	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CROUCH-END	a chapelry	Imperial
Fortis Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
FORTIS GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial
HIGHGATE	a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry	Imperial
Stroud Green	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
STROUD-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 Hornsey 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 Adams	London in the Fifties	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
Wood Green	0	2
Noel Park	0	1
Alexandra Park	0	1
Haringey	0	2
Crouch End	1	2
Stroud Green	0	2
Muswell Hill	1	2
Bounds Green	0	1
South Tottenham	0	1
Finsbury Park	0	1
Brownswood Park	0	1
Upper Holloway	0	1
Bruce Grove	0	1
Seven Sisters	0	2
Tottenham	6	3
Stamford Hill	0	2
Highgate	2	2
New Southgate	0	2
Palmers Green	0	2
Holloway	0	2