Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ETON	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	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 Eton 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	4
William Cobbett	Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst	2
Karl Moritz	Chapter 9: Richmond to Windsor	2
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	1
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 2 - Feb. 27, 1743: Bristol and Bath	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster	1
George Head	Property and education on Guernsey	1
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford	1
Thomas Pennant	Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches	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
Chalvey	0	2
Salt Hill	0	2
Dedworth	0	2
Upton	0	2
Slough	4	2
Boveney	0	2
Frogmore	0	2
Windsor	111	4
Clewer	0	2
Datchet	0	2
Dorney	0	2
Ditton	0	2
Stoke Poges	2	5
Britwell	0	2
Braywood	0	1
Wexham	0	2
Langley Marish	0	3
Horton	0	2
Burnham	2	3
Colnbrook	0	2