Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
GILES (St.)	a parish and a sub-district	Imperial
Reading	hundred	Bartholomew
READING	a town, a district, and a hundred	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SOUTHCOT	a tything	Imperial
Whitley	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WHITLEY	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 Reading 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 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	12
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	9
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	8
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	4
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey	2
Celia Fiennes	Marlborough	2
William Gilpin	Bristol to London	2
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London	1
Charles Wesley	May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Robert Gammage	Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire	1
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	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
Coley	0	2
Caversham	1	2
Earley	0	2
Calcot	0	2
Tilehurst	0	2
Shinfield	0	2
Burghfield	0	2
Mapledurham	2	2
Grazeley	0	3
Holme Park	0	2
Sonning	2	3
Sonning Eye	0	2
Dunsden	0	1
Woodley	0	2
Theale	0	3
Spencers Wood	0	1
Kidmore End	0	2
Sulham	0	2
Purley	0	2
Sulhamstead Bannister	0	2