Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Great Marlow market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
MARLOW (GREAT) a town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
LANE-END a village and 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 Marlow 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 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire 3
William Camden Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 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
Cookham Dean 0 2
Bisham 6 2
Little Marlow 0 3
Medmenham 0 2
Cookham 0 3
Bourne End 0 3
Stubbings 0 2
Burchetts Green 0 2
Lewknor Uphill 0 2
Hurley 1 2
Ackhampstead 0 1
Hedsor 0 2
Maidenhead 23 2
Cliveden 0 2
Desborough 0 2
Beynhurst 0 2
Boyne Hill 0 2
Wooburn 0 3
Littlewick Green 0 2
Hambleden 0 2