Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Reigate	hundred	Bartholomew
REIGATE	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Reigate (or South Eastern) Division		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
EARLSWOOD	a hamlet, with a r station	Imperial
NUTLEY-LANE	a chapelry	Imperial
Redhill	district and railway station	Bartholomew
REDHILL	a small town and two chapelries	Imperial
REIGATE HILL	a place	Imperial
South Park	ecclesiastical district	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 Reigate 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	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	12
William Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	10
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	9
William Cobbett	May 5th to 7th, 1823: Kensington to Worth	6
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 19th to 21st, 1825: Across Surrey	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	3
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 23rd to 27th, 1825: Chilworth to Winchester	2
William Cobbett	Nov. 12th to 20th, 1825: Petersfield to Kensington	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	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
Redhill	0	2
Nutley Lane	0	1
Gatton	4	2
Sidlow Bridge	0	2
Buckland	0	2
Nutfield	1	2
Kingswood	0	2
Merstham	0	2
Chipstead	0	2
Horley	2	2
Betchworth	6	2
Leigh	0	2
Walton on the Hill	0	3
Bletchingley	5	2
Tadworth	0	1
Chaldon	0	2
Brockham	0	2
Outwood	0	1
Banstead	7	2
Norwood Hill	0	2