Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cheshunt	town, parish and railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Flamstead End	hamlet	Bartholomew
Goffs Oak	ecclesiastical district and hamlet	Bartholomew
Hammond Street	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAMMOND-STREET	a hamlet	Imperial
Theobalds	seat	Bartholomew
Waltham Cross	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
WALTHAM-CROSS	a chapelry, with a village	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 Cheshunt 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	Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London	5
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
Goffs Oak	0	1
Wormley	2	2
Waltham Cross	0	2
Bulls Cross	0	2
Ponsbourne	0	1
Newgate Street	0	1
Clay Hill	0	1
Broxbourne	0	2
Enfield Lock	0	2
Northaw	1	2
Hoddesdon	3	2
Waltham Holy Cross	10	5
Sewardstone	0	2
Bayford	0	2
Enfield	21	2
Enfield Chase	1	1
Nazeing	0	2
Ponders End	0	2
Brickendon	0	2
Little Berkhampstead	0	3