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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Battersea. You may be able to find further references to Battersea in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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BATTERSEA | a parish | Imperial |
Battersea and Clapham | parliamentary borough | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Battersea.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Lavender Hill | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
Penge | township and railway station | Bartholomew |
PENGE | a village and 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 Battersea 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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William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 3 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 2 |
John Wesley | 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents | 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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Chelsea | 17 | 2 |
Walham Green | 0 | 2 |
Parsons Green | 0 | 2 |
Lavender Hill | 0 | 1 |
West Brompton | 0 | 2 |
South Kensington | 0 | 1 |
Brompton | 0 | 2 |
Earls Court | 0 | 2 |
Wandsworth | 2 | 2 |
Northend | 0 | 2 |
Nine Elms | 0 | 2 |
Pimlico | 0 | 2 |
Fulham | 8 | 2 |
Belgravia | 0 | 3 |
Victoria | 0 | 1 |
Knightsbridge | 0 | 2 |
Clapham | 0 | 2 |
Kensington | 21 | 3 |
Tothill Fields | 0 | 2 |
Putney | 0 | 2 |