Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SHEERNESS	a town 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 Sheerness 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 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	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
Queenborough	6	2
Minster in Sheppey	2	2
the Isle of Grain	0	2
Iwade	0	2
Elmley	0	2
Sheppey	0	2
Upchurch	0	2
The Nore	0	2
Lower Halstow	0	3
Stoke	0	5
Eastchurch	0	2
Allhallows	0	3
Milton Regis	2	3
Bobbing	0	2
Murston	0	2
Shoeburyness	1	2
South Shoebury	4	2
Key Street	0	2
Tonge	0	2
Southchurch	0	2