Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Battle	hundred	Bartholomew
BATTLE	a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Epiton	Saxon name	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NETHERFIELD	a hamlet and a chapelry	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 Battle 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 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	5
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	4
William Cobbett	Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal	3
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	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
Whatlington	0	2
Catsfield	0	2
Mountfield	0	2
Netherfield	0	4
Sedlescombe	0	2
Penhurst	1	2
Crowhurst	1	2
Rother	0	3
Baldstrow	0	2
Hollington	0	2
Ninfield	1	3
Westfield	0	2
Ashburnham	1	2
Robertsbridge	0	2
Sidley	0	2
Brightling	0	2
Ewhurst	0	2
Silverhill	0	2
Staple	0	2
Bexhill	1	3