Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balcombe	parish, village with railway station, and seat	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HIGHBEACH WARREN	a tract	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 Balcombe 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.
Robert Gammage	On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast	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
Buttinghill	0	2
Ardingly	0	2
Staplefield	0	2
Handcross	0	2
Slaugham	1	2
Highbrook	0	1
Worth	25	2
Turners Hill	0	2
West Hoathly	0	3
Cuckfield	5	2
Haywards Heath	0	2
Crawley	0	2
Horsted Keynes	0	2
Crawley Down	0	2
Broadhurst	0	1
Burleigh Arches	0	2
Lindfield	2	2
Colgate	0	2
Lower Beeding	0	3
Copthorne	0	1