Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
PETERSFIELD	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a division	Imperial
PETERSFIELD and BISHOPS-WALTHAM RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
Petersfield (or Eastern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
OAKSHOT	a hamlet	Imperial
Sheet	township and village	Bartholomew
SHEET	a tything	Imperial

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 Petersfield 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	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	5
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	4
William Cobbett	Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	3
William Cobbett	Nov. 12th to 20th, 1825: Petersfield to Kensington	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	1
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey	1
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	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
Finchdean	0	2
Sheet	0	2
Steep	0	1
Buriton	0	2
Langrish	0	2
Harting	0	2
Froxfield	2	2
Liss	0	4
Rogate	4	2
Hawkley	13	2
Dumpford	0	2
East Meon	9	4
Priors Dean	0	3
Clanfield	0	2
Terwick	0	2
Chalton	0	2
Greatham	8	2
Privett	0	2
Colemore	0	3
Elsted	0	2