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 Maidstone. You may be able to find further references to Maidstone in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Maidstone | hundred | Bartholomew | MAIDSTONE | a town, a parish, two sub-districts, a district, and a hundred | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Maidstone.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | PENNENDEN-HEATH | a common | 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 Maidstone 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 | Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen | 10 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 9 | William Camden | Kent | 7 | Celia Fiennes | 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover | 5 | John Byng | A Tour into Kent, 1790 | 2 | William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 2 | William Cobbett | Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal | 1 | William Cobbett | Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex | 1 | William Cobbett | Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Epsom, Surrey | 1 | Robert Gammage | On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tovil | 0 | 2 |
| Pennenden Heath | 0 | 2 |
| Allington | 3 | 2 |
| Loose | 1 | 2 |
| East Farleigh | 0 | 3 |
| Barming | 0 | 3 |
| Bearstead | 1 | 2 |
| Otham | 0 | 2 |
| Boxley | 1 | 2 |
| Coxheath | 0 | 2 |
| Aylesford | 15 | 3 |
| Ditton | 0 | 2 |
| West Farleigh | 0 | 3 |
| Langley | 0 | 2 |
| Boughton Monchelsea | 0 | 2 |
| Linton | 0 | 2 |
| Teston | 1 | 3 |
| Thurnham | 0 | 3 |
| Detling | 0 | 3 |
| East Malling | 0 | 3 |