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 Brentford. You may be able to find further references to Brentford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | BRENTFORD | a town, three chapelries, a subdistrict, and a district | Imperial |
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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 Brentford 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 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire | 2 | John Wesley | 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents | 2 | James Boswell | October 27th to November 7th, 1773: Through Glasgow to Ayrshire | 1 | William Camden | Middlesex and London | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 2 - Feb. 27, 1743: Bristol and Bath | 1 | Charles Wesley | 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall | 1 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East | 1 | Charles Wesley | May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland | 1 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 1 | George Head | Workington and the Lake District | 1 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brentford End | 0 | 1 |
| Kew | 2 | 2 |
| Old Brentford | 0 | 1 |
| South Ealing | 0 | 1 |
| Isleworth | 5 | 5 |
| Scrattage | 0 | 2 |
| Gunnersbury | 0 | 2 |
| Spring Grove | 0 | 2 |
| Elm Grove | 0 | 2 |
| Richmond | 41 | 2 |
| Ealing | 1 | 2 |
| South Acton | 0 | 1 |
| Osterley | 0 | 2 |
| Acton Green | 0 | 1 |
| Mortlake | 1 | 2 |
| St Margarets | 0 | 1 |
| Sheen | 0 | 3 |
| Turnham Green | 0 | 2 |
| Acton | 1 | 2 |
| Marble Hill | 0 | 2 |
