Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Lymington	river	Bartholomew
LYMINGTON	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a division	Imperial
LYMINGTON RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
LYMINGTON (THE)	a river	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Everton	village	Bartholomew
EVERTON	a hamlet	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 Lymington 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 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	5
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	3
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	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
Milford on Sea	0	2
Efford	0	2
Hordle	0	2
Pennington	0	2
Keyhaven	0	2
Sway	1	2
Milton	0	2
Hurst Castle	0	2
Heywood	0	2
South Baddesley	0	2
Boldre	1	2
Norton	0	2
Colwell	0	2
Hinton Admiral	0	1
Rhinefield	0	1
Brockenhurst	0	2
Totland	0	2
Highcliffe	0	2
The Needles	1	2
Freshwater	1	3