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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Staines. You may be able to find further references to Staines in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Staines | market town and parish with railway station | Bartholomew |
STAINES, WOKINGHAM, and READING RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Staines.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Yeoveney Hall | seat | 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 Staines 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 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire | 5 |
William Camden | Middlesex and London | 3 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 2 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester | 2 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | Moving to London | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | To Herefordshire | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | Hampshire and the Isle of Wight | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | Another tour of the Midlands | 1 |
George Head | East Riding | 1 |
Paul Hentzner | A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor | 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 |
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Stanwell | 1 | 2 |
Spelthorne | 0 | 2 |
Ashford | 0 | 2 |
West Bedfont | 0 | 2 |
East Bedfont | 0 | 2 |
Laleham | 0 | 2 |
Littleton | 0 | 2 |
Heathrow | 0 | 2 |
Thorpe | 0 | 2 |
Wyrardisbury | 0 | 4 |
Poyle | 0 | 2 |
Longford | 0 | 2 |
Horton | 0 | 2 |
Sunbury on Thames | 0 | 2 |
Harmondsworth | 0 | 2 |
Feltham | 0 | 2 |
Hatton | 0 | 2 |
Colnbrook | 0 | 2 |
Sipson | 0 | 3 |
Shepperton | 2 | 2 |