A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wapping. You may be able to find further references to Wapping in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Wapping | parish and 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 Wapping 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol | 2 |
| John Wesley | 1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England | 2 |
| John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 2 |
| Charles Wesley | Jan. 2 - Apr. 30, 1739: London and Oxford | 1 |
| Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol | 1 |
| Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall | 1 |
| Charles Wesley | May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Preface to Third Volume | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| London Docks | 0 | 1 |
| Rotherhithe | 0 | 2 |
| St George in the East | 0 | 2 |
| Shadwell | 2 | 2 |
| St Katherine | 0 | 2 |
| Bermondsey | 1 | 2 |
| Horsleydown | 0 | 2 |
| Tower of London | 0 | 6 |
| Ratcliffe | 8 | 2 |
| Whitechapel | 7 | 2 |
| Aldgate | 0 | 2 |
| South Bermondsey | 0 | 1 |
| Limehouse | 10 | 2 |
| Spitalfields | 12 | 5 |
| Stepney | 5 | 2 |
| Mile End New Town | 0 | 2 |
| Tower Hamlets | 0 | 2 |
| Norton Folgate | 0 | 2 |
| Borough | 0 | 2 |
| Southwark | 44 | 6 |