Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
FAREHAM	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, a hundred, and a division	Imperial
Fareham (or Southern) Division	parlimentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Catisfield	hamlet	Bartholomew
CATISFIELD	a hamlet	Imperial
Fontley	hamlet	Bartholomew
Wallington	hamlet	Bartholomew
WALLINGTON	a hamlet	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 Fareham 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 Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	5
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	4
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	1
Robert Gammage	On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast	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
Titchfield	12	4
Stubbington	0	2
Crofton	0	2
Hook Near Warsash	0	2
Sarisbury	0	2
Wickham	1	3
Swanwick	0	2
Rowner	0	2
Warsash	0	2
Portchester	1	3
Boarhunt	0	2
Elson	0	2
Curdridge	0	2
Alverstoke	0	2
Shedfield	0	3
Hamble le Rice	0	3
Bursledon	2	2
Calshot	0	2
Paulsgrove	0	2
Forton	0	2