Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Plaistow	2 ecclesiastical districts	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 Plaistow 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.
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol	2
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	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
Upton Park	0	1
Upton	0	2
West Ham	2	3
Canning Town	0	3
Forest Gate	0	2
East Ham	0	3
Stratford	0	2
Stratford Marsh	0	1
Blackwall	0	2
Bromley	0	2
Bow	1	2
Cann Hall	0	2
Little Ilford	0	2
Silvertown	0	2
Poplar	5	3
Aldersbrook	0	2
Bow Common	0	1
Old Ford	0	2
Barking	10	2
Victoria Dock	0	2