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 Chesham. You may be able to find further references to Chesham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Chesham | market town and parish with railway station | Bartholomew | Chesham Bois | parish | Bartholomew | CHESHAM-BOIS | a parish | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Chesham.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | ASHERIDGE | a hamlet | Imperial | Ashley Green | hamlet | Bartholomew | ASHLEY-GREEN | a hamlet | Imperial | Bellingdon | hamlet | Bartholomew | BELLINGDON | a hamlet | Imperial | Botley | hamlet | Bartholomew | BOTLEY | a hamlet | Imperial | Charteridge | hamlet | Bartholomew | CHARTERIDGE | a hamlet | Imperial | Hundridge | hamlet | Bartholomew | HUNDRIDGE | a hamlet | Imperial | Latimer | village | Bartholomew | LATIMER | a hamlet-chapelry | Imperial | Latimer with Flaunden | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Waterside | hamlet | Bartholomew | WATERSIDE | a hamlet | Imperial |
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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 Chesham 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 | June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire | 6 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latimer | 2 | 2 |
| Chartridge | 0 | 2 |
| Chiltern | 8 | 2 |
| Ashley Green | 0 | 2 |
| Hawridge | 0 | 2 |
| Amersham | 7 | 2 |
| Flaunden | 0 | 2 |
| Bovingdon | 0 | 2 |
| Pitstone | 0 | 3 |
| Cholesbury | 0 | 3 |
| Little Missenden | 0 | 3 |
| Berkhamsted | 3 | 3 |
| Chenies | 3 | 2 |
| Northchurch | 0 | 2 |
| The Lee | 0 | 3 |
| Great Missenden | 1 | 4 |
| Bourne End | 0 | 2 |
| Coleshill | 0 | 2 |
| Penn Street | 0 | 2 |
| St Leonards | 0 | 2 |