Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Isle of Wight		Bartholomew
WIGHT (Isle of)	an island	Imperial
WIGHT (Isle of) RAILWAY	a railway	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 the Isle of Wight 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 Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	22
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	4
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	3
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	2
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 7: Anglesey	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	1
William Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	1
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	1
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lands End to Winchester	1
Robert Gammage	Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections	1
William Gilpin	Monmouth to Llandovery	1
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 7: St. Paul's Cathedral	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
Marwell	0	2
Blackwater	0	2
Shide	0	1
Clatterford	0	2
Gatcombe	0	4
Chillerton	0	2
Rookley	0	2
Carisbrooke	6	4
Bowcombe	0	2
Barton	0	1
Newport	10	2
Arreton	0	3
Parkhurst	0	2
Godshill	1	2
Shorwell	0	2
Kingston	0	3
Swainston	0	2
Whippingham	0	2
Lemerston	0	2
Medina	0	2