Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
KEW	a village and a parish	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 Kew 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.
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: Biggleswade to Newark	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	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
Old Brentford	0	1
Gunnersbury	0	2
Brentford	15	2
Brentford End	0	1
Acton Green	0	1
South Acton	0	1
Turnham Green	0	2
Mortlake	1	2
South Ealing	0	1
Chiswick	3	2
Sheen	0	3
Elm Grove	0	2
Acton	1	2
Barnes	1	2
Ealing	1	2
Richmond	41	2
Isleworth	5	5
Scrattage	0	2
Spring Grove	0	2
St Margarets	0	1