Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DOVER	a town and a district	Imperial
DOVER-CASTLE	an extra-parochial liberty	Imperial
Dover Castle Liberties	parish	Bartholomew
DOVER (Strait of)	a strait between England and France	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 Dover 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 Camden	Kent	18
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	13
Celia Fiennes	1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	3
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	3
John Byng	A Tour into Kent, 1790	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 4 - Dec. 30, 1736: Massachusetts, and back to England	2
Paul Hentzner	Departure: Canterbury and Dover	2
William Cobbett	Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	1
William Gilpin	Monmouth to Llandovery	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	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
Charlton Near Dover	0	2
Buckland Near Dover	0	2
East Cliffe	0	2
River	0	2
Poulton	0	2
Guston	0	2
Hougham	0	3
Whitfield	0	2
Temple Ewell	0	2
Church Whitfield	0	2
Bewsborough	0	2
West Cliffe	0	3
Alkham	0	2
East Langdon	0	2
South Foreland	0	2
West Langdon	0	2
Capel le Ferne	0	2
St Margarets At Cliffe	0	2
Coldred	0	2
Lydden	0	3