Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SOUTHAMPTON	a town, a district, and a division	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Northam	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 Southampton 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	11
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	8
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	6
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	5
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	5
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	3
William Cobbett	Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	2
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	2
Robert Gammage	On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast	2
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	1
William Cobbett	Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	1
Robert Gammage	Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections	1
George Head	Arriving on Guernsey	1
George Head	Property and education on Guernsey	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
Bevois	0	2
Northam	0	2
St Denys	0	2
New Town	0	2
Highfield	0	2
Portswood	0	2
Freemantle	0	2
Shirley	0	2
Bitterne	1	2
South Stoneham	2	2
Mainsbridge	0	2
Woolston	0	2
Itchen	1	3
Sholing	0	2
Millbrook	0	2
Weston	0	3
North Stoneham	0	3
Marchwood	1	2
Redbridge	0	2
Dibden	2	2