Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HAMMERSMITH	a metropolitan suburb and a parish	Imperial
HAMMERSMITH AND CITY RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Shepherd's Bush	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
STARCH-GREEN	a place	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 Hammersmith 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 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	1
Celia Fiennes	Moving to London	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 8: London to Richmond	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
Brook Green	0	1
Shepherds Bush	0	2
Northend	0	2
Campden Hill	0	1
Earls Court	0	2
Norlands	0	1
Kensington	21	3
Chiswick	3	2
West Brompton	0	2
Notting Hill	0	2
Turnham Green	0	2
Barnes	1	2
Kensington Gravel Pits	0	1
Walham Green	0	2
Parsons Green	0	2
Acton Green	0	1
Fulham	8	2
Wormwood Scrubs	0	2
Westbourne Park	0	2
South Acton	0	1