Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Gatton	parish	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 Gatton 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 Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	May 5th to 7th, 1823: Kensington to Worth	1
William Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	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
Merstham	0	2
Redhill	0	2
Reigate	59	4
Kingswood	0	2
Chipstead	0	2
Nutley Lane	0	1
Banstead	7	2
Chaldon	0	2
Buckland	0	2
Tadworth	0	1
Nutfield	1	2
Walton on the Hill	0	3
Sidlow Bridge	0	2
Bletchingley	5	2
Copthorne	0	2
Coulsdon	0	2
Caterham	0	3
Woodmansterne	0	2
Betchworth	6	2
Nork	0	2