Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Waltham Forest like this:

Waltham Forest, old name of Epping.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Waltham Forest by doing a full-text search here.

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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 Waltham Forest 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 Camden	Essex and Suffolk	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
Walthamstow	2	3
Highams Park	0	1
Woodford	2	4
Snaresbrook	0	2
Leyton	4	2
Leytonstone	0	2
Chingford	0	2
Wanstead	9	2
Tottenham	6	3
Woodford Wells	0	2
Bruce Grove	0	1
Lea Bridge	0	2
Seven Sisters	0	2
Edmonton	4	3
South Tottenham	0	1
Cann Hall	0	2
Lower Edmonton	0	1
Stamford Hill	0	2
Woodford Bridge	0	2
Clapton	0	2