Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
PETWORTH	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Byworth	hamlet	Bartholomew
BYWORTH	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 Petworth 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 Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	15
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	5
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	3
William Cobbett	Nov. 12th to 20th, 1825: Petersfield to Kensington	3
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	1
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	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
Egdean	0	2
Rotherbridge	0	2
Tillington	0	2
Fittleworth	0	2
Coates	0	2
Stopham	0	2
Ebernoe	0	1
Burton	1	4
Duncton	0	2
Lodsworth	0	2
Selham	0	2
Barlavington	0	2
Kirdford	0	2
East Lavington	0	4
South Ambersham	0	3
Coldwaltham	0	3
Sutton	0	2
North Chapel	3	3
Graffham	0	2
Hardham	2	2