Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WIMBLEDON	a village and a parish	Imperial
Wimbledon (or North Eastern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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 Wimbledon 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
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	2

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
Merton	4	4
Raynes Park	0	1
Garrat	0	2
Summerstown	0	2
Kingston Vale	0	2
Earlsfield	0	1
Roehampton	0	2
Coombe	0	2
Tooting	0	1
Tooting Graveney	0	2
New Malden	0	2
Morden	1	2
Wandsworth	2	2
Putney	0	2
Kingston Hill	0	1
Upper Tooting	0	2
Mitcham	1	2
Fulham	8	2
Balham	0	2
Malden	1	2