Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HATFIELD, or Bishops-Hatfield	a small 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 Hatfield.

Place	Type of entry	Source
BROCKET HALL	the seat and death-place of the late Viscount Melbourne	Imperial
HATFIELD-WOODHOUSE	a hamlet	Imperial
Lemsford	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
NEWGATE-STREET	a hamlet-chapelry	Imperial
Roe Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
ROE-GREEN	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 Hatfield 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.
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	7
Charles Wesley	Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London	5
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	2
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade	1
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	1
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	1
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	1
Thomas Pennant	Enfield to London	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	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
Essendon	0	2
Lemsford	0	2
Welwyn	6	2
North Mimms	3	3
Colney Heath	0	2
Little Berkhampstead	0	3
Hertingfordbury	0	2
Tewin	0	2
Digswell	0	2
Ayot St Peter	0	1
Sandridge	1	2
Bayford	0	2
Tittenhanger	0	2
Newgate Street	0	1
Ponsbourne	0	1
Bramfield	0	3
Northaw	1	2
London Colney	2	2
Ridge	0	2
Brickendon	0	2