Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Limehouse	parish and railway station	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 Limehouse 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 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster	2

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
Ratcliffe	8	2
Tower Hamlets	0	2
Stepney	5	2
Shadwell	2	2
Bow Common	0	1
Mile End	0	3
St George in the East	0	2
Poplar	5	3
Wapping	16	2
Rotherhithe	0	2
London Docks	0	1
Whitechapel	7	2
Bow	1	2
Bromley	0	2
Mile End New Town	0	2
Bethnal Green	6	2
Millwall	0	1
the Isle of Dogs	0	3
St Katherine	0	2
Victoria Park	0	3