Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bray	hundred	Bartholomew
Bray	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Boyne Hill	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BOYNE-HILL	a chapelry, with a railway station	Imperial
Braywick, Grove and Lodge	seats	Bartholomew
Hollyport	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOLLYPORT	a hamlet	Imperial
Holyport	village	Bartholomew
Touchen End	curacy	Bartholomew
TOUCHEN-END	a chapelry	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 Bray 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	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 2 - Apr. 30, 1739: London and Oxford	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
Touchen End	0	2
Braywood	0	1
White Waltham	0	3
Boyne Hill	0	2
Dorney	0	2
Maidenhead	23	2
Boveney	0	2
Dedworth	0	2
Shottesbrooke	0	2
Clewer	0	2
Cranbourne	0	2
Warfield	0	2
Taplow	1	2
Beynhurst	0	2
Littlewick Green	0	2
Windsor	111	4
Eton	17	2
Waltham St Lawrence	1	3
Stubbings	0	2
Cookham	0	3