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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about West Ham. You may be able to find further references to West Ham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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HAM, or WEST HAM | a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
Ham, West | parliamentary borough, parish, and local government district | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with West Ham.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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BARKING-ROAD | a chapelry, with a r station | Imperial |
CANNING-TOWN | a chapelry | Imperial |
CHURCH-STREET | a ward | Imperial |
FOREST-GATE | a village | Imperial |
Plaistow | 2 ecclesiastical districts | Bartholomew |
PLAISTOW | a village, a chapelry, and a ward | Imperial |
SILVERTOWN | a village | Imperial |
Stratford | town | Bartholomew |
STRATFORD | a town, a ward, and three chapelries | Imperial |
Stratford Marsh | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
Upton | village | Bartholomew |
UPTON | a village | Imperial |
Victoria Docks | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
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 West Ham 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. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 2 |
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 |
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Stratford | 0 | 2 |
Stratford Marsh | 0 | 1 |
Upton | 0 | 2 |
Plaistow | 0 | 2 |
Forest Gate | 0 | 2 |
Bromley | 0 | 2 |
Bow | 1 | 2 |
Cann Hall | 0 | 2 |
Old Ford | 0 | 2 |
Canning Town | 0 | 3 |
Upton Park | 0 | 1 |
Hackney Wick | 0 | 1 |
Bow Common | 0 | 1 |
Blackwall | 0 | 2 |
Victoria Park | 0 | 3 |
Mile End | 0 | 3 |
Poplar | 5 | 3 |
East Ham | 0 | 3 |
Leyton | 4 | 2 |
Aldersbrook | 0 | 2 |