Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ropley parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Charlwood 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 Ropley 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 Cobbett Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey 6
William Cobbett Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen 2

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
West Tisted 0 2
Bishops Sutton 2 4
Bighton 0 2
Medstead 0 3
East Tisted 5 2
Colemore 0 3
Bramdean 2 2
Privett 0 2
Farringdon 0 3
Old Alresford 0 3
Hinton Ampner 0 2
Newton Valence 0 2
Chawton 0 2
New Alresford 9 3
Froxfield 2 2
Godsfield 0 2
Wield 0 2
West Meon 2 3
Priors Dean 0 3
Bentworth 0 2