Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
ROMSEY a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a division Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Crampmoor school Bartholomew
Cupernham tithing Bartholomew
CUPERNHAM a tything Imperial
LEE a tything Imperial
MAINSTONE a tything Imperial
RANVILLS a tything Imperial
SPURSHOT a tything Imperial
STANBRIDGE a tything Imperial
WOODBURY, or Woodley a tything Imperial
WOOLS a tything 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 Romsey 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.
William Cobbett Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst 4
William Camden Wiltshire and Hampshire 2
William Cobbett Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming 2
Celia Fiennes Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 2
William Cobbett Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal 1
William Cobbett Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield 1
William Cobbett Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset 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
Awbridge 0 2
Timsbury 0 2
Embley 0 2
Lee 0 1
Michelmersh 0 2
Braishfield 0 2
East Wellow 0 1
Dunwood 0 2
Ampfield 0 2
Rownhams 0 2
North Baddesley 0 2
Thorngate 0 2
Nursling 0 2
Sherfield English 0 2
Chilworth 0 2
Upper Eldon 0 2
West Wellow 0 3
Lockerley 1 1
Mottisfont 0 2
Farley Chamberlayne 0 2