Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BATTERSEA	a parish	Imperial
Battersea and Clapham	parliamentary borough	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Lavender Hill	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Penge	township and railway station	Bartholomew
PENGE	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 Battersea 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	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	2
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	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
Chelsea	17	2
Walham Green	0	2
Parsons Green	0	2
Lavender Hill	0	1
West Brompton	0	2
South Kensington	0	1
Brompton	0	2
Earls Court	0	2
Wandsworth	2	2
Northend	0	2
Nine Elms	0	2
Pimlico	0	2
Fulham	8	2
Belgravia	0	3
Victoria	0	1
Knightsbridge	0	2
Clapham	0	2
Kensington	21	3
Tothill Fields	0	2
Putney	0	2