Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Waltham	hundred	Bartholomew
WALTHAM	a hundred	Imperial
WALTHAM-ABBEY, or W.-Holycross	a small town, a township, and a parish	Imperial
Waltham Holy Cross		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
High Beach	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
HIGH BEECH	a chapelry	Imperial
Holyfield	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOLYFIELD	a hamlet	Imperial
SEWARDSTONE	a hamlet	Imperial
UPSHIRE	a hamlet	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 Waltham Holy Cross 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.
Thomas Pennant	Enfield to London	3
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	2
William Camden	Saxons, Danes and Normans	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Middlesex and London	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	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
High Beech	0	2
Sewardstone	0	2
Enfield Lock	0	2
Waltham Cross	0	2
Loughton	0	2
Bulls Cross	0	2
Theydon Bois	0	2
Nazeing	0	2
Ponders End	0	2
Cheshunt	6	2
Chigwell	0	2
Epping	11	5
Buckhurst Hill	0	2
Chingford	0	2
Woodford Wells	0	2
Abridge	0	2
Wormley	2	2
Theydon Garnon	0	2
Coopersale	0	2
Netherhall	0	2