A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hampstead. You may be able to find further references to Hampstead in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Hampstead | parliamentary borough and parish | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Hampstead.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Belsize St Peter | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Golders Hill | place | Bartholomew | GOLDERS-HILL | a place | Imperial | KILBURN | a metropolitan suburb and four chapelries | Imperial | NORTHEND | a hamlet | Imperial | POND-STREET | a hamlet | Imperial | WESTEND | a hamlet | Imperial | West Hampstead | railway station | Bartholomew |
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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 Hampstead 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 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 9 | James Boswell | September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye | 1 | William Camden | Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 1 | William Camden | Middlesex and London | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: Coventry to London | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: London to Bury St Edmunds | 1 | Karl Moritz | Chapter 6: Around London | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Belsize Park | 0 | 1 |
| Haverstock Hill | 0 | 2 |
| West Hampstead | 0 | 1 |
| Gospel Oak | 0 | 2 |
| Swiss Cottage | 0 | 1 |
| Primrose Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Chalk Farm | 0 | 2 |
| Portland Town | 0 | 2 |
| Highgate | 2 | 2 |
| Kentish Town | 0 | 2 |
| St Johns Wood | 0 | 2 |
| Ossulstone | 0 | 2 |
| Cricklewood | 0 | 2 |
| Brondesbury | 0 | 2 |
| Tufnell Park | 0 | 1 |
| Kilburn | 0 | 2 |
| Camden | 0 | 2 |
| Upper Holloway | 0 | 1 |
| Maida Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Regents Park | 0 | 1 |