Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Leyton	town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
KNOTTS-GREEN	a quondam hamlet	Imperial
Lea Bridge	railway station	Bartholomew
LEA-BRIDGE	a quondam hamlet	Imperial
Leytonstone	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
LEYTONSTONE	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 Leyton 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 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	2
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	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
Leytonstone	0	2
Cann Hall	0	2
Lea Bridge	0	2
Walthamstow	2	3
Hackney Wick	0	1
Homerton	0	2
Snaresbrook	0	2
Stratford	0	2
Wanstead	9	2
Forest Gate	0	2
Waltham Forest	1	1
West Ham	2	3
Stratford Marsh	0	1
Old Ford	0	2
Clapton	0	2
Aldersbrook	0	2
Victoria Park	0	3
Hackney	9	2
Upton	0	2
South Hackney	0	1