Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Egham	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Camomile Hill	eminence	Bartholomew
Englefield Green	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
ENGLEFIELD GREEN	a chapelry	Imperial
Magna Charta Island	island	Bartholomew
New Egham	village	Bartholomew
Virginia Water	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
VIRGINIA-WATER	a chapelry	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 Egham 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 Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	1
Celia Fiennes	Moving to London	1
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	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
Virginia Water	0	2
Englefield Green	0	2
Thorpe	0	2
Runnymede	3	2
Bishopsgate	0	2
Old Windsor	1	3
Longcross	0	2
Wyrardisbury	0	4
Botleys	0	2
Bromhall	0	2
Sunningdale	0	2
Chertsey	11	3
Ottershaw	0	2
Laleham	0	2
Staines	20	3
Sunninghill	1	2
Frogmore	0	2
Godley	0	2
Windsor	111	4
Horton	0	2