Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Gillingham	hundred	Bartholomew
GILLINGHAM	a village, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BROMPTON	a town and two chapelries	Imperial
Brompton, New	ecclesiastical district (St Mark) and railway station	Bartholomew
Grange, or Grench	township	Bartholomew
Lidsing, or Lidgen	township	Bartholomew
New Brompton	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew

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 Gillingham 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	Kent	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	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
Grange	0	2
Rainham	0	2
Luton	0	2
New Brompton	0	1
Chatham	24	4
Brompton	0	2
Lidsing	0	3
Hoo	3	5
Hartlip	0	2
Medway	0	3
Bredhurst	0	2
Upchurch	0	2
Upnor	0	1
Yelsted	0	2
Hill Green	0	2
Frindsbury	0	2
Lower Halstow	0	3
Newington	0	2
Rochester	56	5
Borstal	0	1