Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Hambledon hundred Bartholomew
Hambledon parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Barn Green hamlet Bartholomew
BARN-GREEN a hamlet Imperial
Chidden hamlet Bartholomew
CHIDDEN And GLIDDEN a tything Imperial
DENMEAD a tything Imperial
Envils tithing Bartholomew
ERVILLS, or Leigh a tything Imperial
Glidden hamlet Bartholomew
NEWTOWN a hamlet Imperial
Westend 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 Hambledon 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. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex 6
William Cobbett Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington 4
William Cobbett Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey 3
William Cobbett Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield 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
Denmead 0 2
Catherington 0 2
Soberton 5 2
Newtown 0 2
Meonstoke 3 4
Horndean 0 2
Waterloo 0 3
Clanfield 0 2
Southwick 2 2
Blendworth 0 2
Boarhunt 0 2
Swanmore 0 3
Droxford 1 2
Purbrook 0 2
East Meon 9 4
Chalton 0 2
Rowlands Castle 0 2
Portsdown 0 2
Widley 0 2
Exton 4 2