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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Chatham. You may be able to find further references to Chatham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | CHATHAM | a town and a parish | Imperial | Chatham and Gillingham | hundred | Bartholomew | CHATHAM AND GILLINGHAM | a hundred | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Chatham.
Place | Type of entry | Source | BROMPTON | a town and two chapelries | Imperial | Luton | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew | LUTON | a chapelry | Imperial |
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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 Chatham 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. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 6 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 4 | John Byng | A Tour into Kent, 1790 | 2 | William Cobbett | Dec. 4th to 5th, 1821: Kentish Journal | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 2 | John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 2 | John Wesley | 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon | 2 | William Camden | Kent | 1 | John Wesley | 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life | 1 |
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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 |
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Luton | 0 | 2 |
Lidsing | 0 | 3 |
New Brompton | 0 | 1 |
Borstal | 0 | 1 |
Brompton | 0 | 2 |
Rochester | 56 | 5 |
Gillingham | 2 | 3 |
Bredhurst | 0 | 2 |
Wouldham | 0 | 2 |
Grange | 0 | 2 |
Burham | 0 | 2 |
Rainham | 0 | 2 |
Frindsbury | 0 | 2 |
Strood | 0 | 2 |
Upnor | 0 | 1 |
Boxley | 1 | 2 |
Yelsted | 0 | 2 |
Detling | 0 | 3 |
Cuxton | 0 | 2 |
Aylesford | 15 | 3 |