Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Lockerley like this:

Lockerley, par. and vil., Hants, 5½ miles NW. of Romsey, 1756 ac., pop. 599; P.O.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Lockerley by doing a full-text search here.


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 Lockerley 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.
Celia Fiennes Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 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
Sherfield English 0 2
East Dean 0 2
Mottisfont 0 2
Thorngate 0 2
Dunwood 0 2
Awbridge 0 2
Frenchmoor 0 2
East Tytherley 1 2
Melchet Park 0 2
Cowsfield 0 2
Embley 0 2
Pittleworth 0 2
Timsbury 0 2
East Wellow 0 1
West Tytherley 1 3
Crown Farm 0 2
Michelmersh 0 2
Bossington 0 2
Queenwood 0 2
Whiteparish 1 2