Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
WARE a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Rush Green hamlet Bartholomew
RUSH-GREEN a hamlet Imperial
WARESIDE 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 Ware 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 Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 5
William Cobbett Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal 4
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 1
Celia Fiennes Bedfordshire 1
Paul Hentzner A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor 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
Little Amwell 0 2
Great Amwell 0 2
Stanstead St Margaret 0 3
Thundridge 0 2
Haileybury 0 2
Hertford 12 5
Bengeo 0 3
Wareside 0 2
Stanstead Abbots 0 2
High Cross 0 2
Waterford 0 1
Rye House 0 2
Sacombe 0 2
Brickendon 0 2
Stapleford 0 2
Hunsdon 0 2
Hoddesdon 3 2
Widford 0 2
Colliers End 0 2
Bramfield 0 3