Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burnham	hundred	Bartholomew
Burnham	parish, township, and village	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Boveney	liberty	Bartholomew
BOVENEY	a chapelry	Imperial
Britwell	liberty and seat	Bartholomew
BRITWELL	a liberty	Imperial
Burnham, East	liberty	Bartholomew
BURNHAM (East), or Allards	a liberty	Imperial
CHIPPENHAM, or Cippenham	a liberty	Imperial
Cippenham	school	Bartholomew
DROPMORE	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 Burnham 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 Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	1
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	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
Britwell	0	2
Hitcham	0	2
Farnham Royal	2	2
Dropmore	0	2
Taplow	1	2
Cliveden	0	2
Hedsor	0	2
Stoke Poges	2	5
Salt Hill	0	2
Dorney	0	2
Hockley Hole	0	2
Chalvey	0	2
Slough	4	2
Hedgerley	0	4
Bourne End	0	3
Wooburn	0	3
Boveney	0	2
Cookham	0	3
Upton	0	2
Eton	17	2