Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tottenham	parish	Bartholomew
TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY	a small railway system	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MOUNT-PLEASANT	a hamlet	Imperial
Seven Sisters	railway station	Bartholomew
SEVEN SISTERS	a hamlet	Imperial
Tottenham Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew
WOOD-GREEN	a ward and 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 Tottenham 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 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	4
Celia Fiennes	1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover	1
Thomas Pennant	Enfield to London	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
Bruce Grove	0	1
Edmonton	4	3
Seven Sisters	0	2
South Tottenham	0	1
Noel Park	0	1
Haringey	0	2
Lower Edmonton	0	1
Stamford Hill	0	2
Wood Green	0	2
Hornsey	1	2
Waltham Forest	1	1
Palmers Green	0	2
Walthamstow	2	3
Abney Park	0	2
Alexandra Park	0	1
Bounds Green	0	1
Stoke Newington	6	2
Lea Bridge	0	2
Crouch End	1	2
Stroud Green	0	2