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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hatfield. You may be able to find further references to Hatfield in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HATFIELD, or Bishops-Hatfield | a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Hatfield.
Place | Type of entry | Source | BROCKET HALL | the seat and death-place of the late Viscount Melbourne | Imperial | HATFIELD-WOODHOUSE | a hamlet | Imperial | Lemsford | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | NEWGATE-STREET | a hamlet-chapelry | Imperial | Roe Green | hamlet | Bartholomew | ROE-GREEN | a hamlet | Imperial |
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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 Hatfield 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. | Thomas Pennant | Luton to Hatfield | 7 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London | 5 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester | 2 | John Byng | A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade | 1 | John Byng | A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May | 1 | John Byng | A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk | 1 | John Wesley | 1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness | 1 | John Wesley | 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War | 1 | John Wesley | 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Tyringham to Woburn | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Enfield to London | 1 | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands | 1 |
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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 |
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Essendon | 0 | 2 |
Lemsford | 0 | 2 |
Welwyn | 6 | 2 |
North Mimms | 3 | 3 |
Colney Heath | 0 | 2 |
Little Berkhampstead | 0 | 3 |
Hertingfordbury | 0 | 2 |
Tewin | 0 | 2 |
Digswell | 0 | 2 |
Ayot St Peter | 0 | 1 |
Sandridge | 1 | 2 |
Bayford | 0 | 2 |
Tittenhanger | 0 | 2 |
Newgate Street | 0 | 1 |
Ponsbourne | 0 | 1 |
Bramfield | 0 | 3 |
Northaw | 1 | 2 |
London Colney | 2 | 2 |
Ridge | 0 | 2 |
Brickendon | 0 | 2 |