Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brockham Green	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
BROCKHAM, or Brockham Green	a village and 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 Betchworth 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	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	2
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 19th to 21st, 1825: Across Surrey	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
Brockham	0	2
Buckland	0	2
Leigh	0	2
Box Hill	0	2
Dorking	31	2
Nutley Lane	0	1
Mole Valley	0	2
Mickleham	5	2
Headley	0	2
Holmwood	0	2
Walton on the Hill	0	3
Sidlow Bridge	0	2
Reigate	59	4
Ranmore	0	2
Milton Street	0	2
Kingswood	0	2
Westcott	0	2
Copthorne	0	2
Norwood Hill	0	2
Tadworth	0	1