Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Charlton Junction	railway station	Bartholomew
Charlton, New	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHARLTON (New)	a locality	Imperial
Charlton next Woolwich	parish	Bartholomew
Charlton, Old	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
New Charlton	village	Bartholomew
Old Charlton	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew

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 Charlton 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.
John Byng	A Tour into Kent, 1790	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Addenda to the first volume	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
Westcombe Park	0	2
Kidbrooke	0	2
Silvertown	0	2
Shooters Hill	0	2
Victoria Dock	0	2
Woolwich	8	2
Blackheath	0	2
North Woolwich	0	3
Greenwich	33	3
Lee	0	2
Eltham	15	2
Plumstead	0	2
Blackwall	0	2
the Isle of Dogs	0	3
Millwall	0	1
Canning Town	0	3
Lewisham	12	2
Deptford	38	4
Poplar	5	3
Mottingham	0	2