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 Kingston upon Thames. You may be able to find further references to Kingston upon Thames in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston | Bartholomew | |
| Kingston | hundred | Bartholomew |
| KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES | a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Kingston upon Thames.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Berrylands | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
| Coomb and Malden | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
| COOMBE | a chapelry | Imperial |
| Ham Common | local government district | Bartholomew |
| Ham with Hatch | township | Bartholomew |
| Hatch | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| HATCH | a hamlet | Imperial |
| Hook | township and hamlet | Bartholomew |
| KINGSTON-GATE | a place | Imperial |
| Kingston Hill | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
| KINGSTON-UPON-RAILWAY, or NEW KINGSTON | a new town | Imperial |
| Kingston Vale (or Robinhood Gate) | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
| Norbiton | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
| ROBINHOOD-GATE, or Kingston-Vale | a chapelry | Imperial |
| Surbiton | town with railway station | Bartholomew |
| SURBITON | a chapelry | Imperial |
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 Kingston upon Thames 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 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 4 |
| William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 3 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester | 2 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire | 2 |
| Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 2 |
| William Camden | Kent | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 1 |
| Celia Fiennes | Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey | 1 |
| Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire | 1 |
| William Gilpin | London to Ross | 1 |
| Paul Hentzner | A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Norbiton | 0 | 1 |
| Surbiton | 0 | 2 |
| Bushy Park | 0 | 2 |
| Hampton Court | 0 | 2 |
| Kingston Hill | 0 | 1 |
| Teddington | 0 | 2 |
| Ham | 1 | 3 |
| Hatch | 0 | 2 |
| Coombe | 0 | 2 |
| Long Ditton | 0 | 3 |
| New Malden | 0 | 2 |
| Tolworth | 0 | 2 |
| Petersham | 3 | 2 |
| Strawberry Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Hampton Hill | 0 | 3 |
| Kingston Vale | 0 | 2 |
| Hampton | 4 | 3 |
| Ember | 0 | 2 |
| East Molesey | 2 | 4 |
| Twickenham | 3 | 2 |