Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Shoebury, South	coastal parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SHOEBURY-FORT	a place	Imperial
Shoeburyness	village with railway station	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 South Shoebury 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	Essex and Suffolk	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	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
Shoeburyness	1	2
North Shoebury	2	3
Great Wakering	1	3
Southchurch	0	2
Little Wakering	0	2
Havengore	0	2
Barling	0	2
Southend on Sea	1	3
Shopland	0	2
The Nore	0	2
Sutton	0	2
Milton	0	2
Prittlewell	2	2
Great Stambridge	1	2
Westcliff	0	1
Paglesham	0	2
Little Stambridge	0	2
Wallasea	0	2
the Isle of Grain	0	2
Eastwood	0	2