Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Henley on Thames. You may be able to find further references to Henley on Thames in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Henley railway station Bartholomew
HENLEY a sub-district and a district Imperial
HENLEY-ON-THAMES a town and a parish Imperial
Henley (or Southern) Division parliamentary division Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Henley on Thames.

Place Type of entry Source
Emma Green hamlet Bartholomew

Travel writing

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 Henley on 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.
Karl Moritz Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford 5
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire 3
William Gilpin Bristol to London 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Paul Hentzner A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 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
Badgemore 0 1
Harpsden 0 2
Remenham 0 2
Bolney 0 2
Binfield 0 2
Shiplake 0 2
Rotherfield Greys 1 3
Assendon 0 2
Fawley 1 2
Wargrave 0 3
Bix 0 2
Rotherfield Peppard 0 2
Dunsden 0 1
Sonning Eye 0 2
Highmoor 0 2
Hurley 1 2
Medmenham 0 2
Hambleden 0 2
Kiln Green 0 2
Twyford 5 2