Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wokingham (or Eastern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew
Wokingham (or Oakingham)	market town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BEARWOOD	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 Wokingham 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	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	4
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	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
Bearwood	0	2
Barkham	0	2
Winnersh	0	2
Newland	0	2
Hurst	0	2
Charlton	0	2
Finchampstead	0	2
Binfield	3	2
Arborfield	0	2
Wellington College	0	2
Easthampstead	0	3
Woodley	0	2
Whistley	0	1
Broad Hinton	0	3
Crowthorne	0	1
Earley	0	2
Sonning	2	3
Waltham St Lawrence	1	3
Bracknell	0	2
Sandhurst	0	2