Faversham, Kent : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Faversham hundred Bartholomew
Faversham municipal borough, market town, and parish, river-port, and corporate member of the Cinque Port Bartholomew
FAVERSHAM, or Feversham a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred Imperial
Faversham (or North-Eastern) 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 Faversham 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 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone 4
John Byng A Tour into Kent, 1790 2
William Camden Kent 2
William Cobbett Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen 2
Daniel Defoe Appendix to letter 1 2
William Cobbett Dec. 4th to 5th, 1821: Kentish Journal 1
William Cobbett Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex 1
Celia Fiennes 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover 1
John Wesley 1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England 1
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 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 Historical Gazetteer
The Brents 0 1
Preston Next Faversham 0 2
Davington 1 2
Goodnestone 0 2
Oare 0 2
Stone 0 3
Luddenham 0 2
Buckland 0 2
Ospringe 2 2
Boughton under Blean 1 4
Graveney 0 2
Norton 0 2
Sheldwich 0 2
Selling 0 2
Hernhill 0 2
Teynham 2 4
Harty 0 2
Swale 3 2
Leaveland 0 2
Badlesmere 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Faversham. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
FAVERSHAM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
FAVERSHAM OR FEVERSHAM John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
FAVERSHAM OR NORTH EASTERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
FAVRESFIELD John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
FAVRESHANT John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
FEVERSHAM John Byng The Torrington Diaries: Containing the tours through England And Wales of the Hon. John Byng (Later Fifth Viscount Torrington) between the years 1781 and 1794 (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1938).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
FFEVERSHAM Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.