Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MORTLAKE	a village, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SHEEN (East)	a hamlet and a chapelry	Imperial
Sheen, East and West	2 hamlets	Bartholomew
SHEEN (West)	a place	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 Mortlake 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 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	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
Sheen	0	3
Barnes	1	2
Kew	2	2
Chiswick	3	2
Roehampton	0	2
Turnham Green	0	2
Gunnersbury	0	2
Richmond	41	2
Old Brentford	0	1
Acton Green	0	1
Brentford	15	2
South Acton	0	1
Brentford End	0	1
Putney	0	2
Petersham	3	2
Marble Hill	0	2
Fulham	8	2
Kingston Vale	0	2
St Margarets	0	1
Hammersmith	7	3