Epping, Essex : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Epping market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
EPPING a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a forest Imperial
Epping (or Western) Division parliamentary division Bartholomew
Epping Upland hamlet Bartholomew
EPPING-UPLAND a hamlet Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
RYEHILL a hamlet Imperial
Ryehlll hamlet 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 Epping 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 2: Harwich and Suffolk 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 2
George Borrow To Swansea 1
Charles Wesley Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 1
Celia Fiennes 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire 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 Historical Gazetteer
Coopersale 0 2
Theydon Garnon 0 2
Theydon Bois 0 2
Theydon Mount 0 2
North Weald Bassett 0 3
Stapleford Tawney 0 2
Abridge 1 2
Stanford Rivers 1 2
Loughton 0 2
Lambourne 1 2
Great Parndon 0 3
Potter Street 0 2
High Beech 0 2
Latton 0 2
Nazeing 0 2
Greenstead 0 2
Magdalen Laver 0 3
Bobbingworth 0 2
Netteswell 0 2
Chigwell 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Epping. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
EPIN Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
EPPING John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
EPPING OR WESTERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
EPPING UPLAND John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.