Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Walthamstow	parish and railway station	Bartholomew
Walthamstow (or South Western) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WHIPS-CROSS	a hamlet	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 Walthamstow 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 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	1
Thomas Pennant	Enfield to London	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
Waltham Forest	1	1
Leyton	4	2
Snaresbrook	0	2
Highams Park	0	1
Leytonstone	0	2
Woodford	2	4
Wanstead	9	2
Lea Bridge	0	2
Cann Hall	0	2
Tottenham	6	3
Seven Sisters	0	2
Bruce Grove	0	1
South Tottenham	0	1
Clapton	0	2
Chingford	0	2
Stamford Hill	0	2
Homerton	0	2
Woodford Wells	0	2
Aldersbrook	0	2
Hackney Wick	0	1