Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
RICHMOND	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 Richmond 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 8: London to Richmond	12
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	6
Karl Moritz	Chapter 9: Richmond to Windsor	4
William Cobbett	Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	2
Karl Moritz	Chapter 7: St. Paul's Cathedral	2
William Cobbett	Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	1
George Head	Tees-side	1
Paul Hentzner	Arrival and London	1
Karl Moritz	Introduction	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire	1
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	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
Marble Hill	0	2
St Margarets	0	1
Petersham	3	2
Isleworth	5	5
Twickenham	3	2
Hatch	0	2
Ham	1	3
Brentford End	0	1
Brentford	15	2
Sheen	0	3
Strawberry Hill	0	2
Mortlake	1	2
Spring Grove	0	2
Kew	2	2
Scrattage	0	2
Fulwell	0	2
Whitton	0	2
Old Brentford	0	1
Hounslow	11	2
Teddington	0	2