Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Folkestone	hundred	Bartholomew
FOLKESTONE	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred	Imperial
Folkstone	municiple borough, sea town and parish	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 Folkestone 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 Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	12
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	4
William Cobbett	Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent	3
William Camden	Kent	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	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
Sandgate	6	2
Cheriton	0	2
Hawkinge	0	2
Paddlesworth	0	2
Capel le Ferne	0	2
Newington	0	1
Etchinghill	0	3
Acrise	0	2
Alkham	0	2
Swingfield	0	2
Hougham	0	3
Saltwood	2	2
Hythe	13	3
Poulton	0	2
Postling	0	2
Lyminge	1	2
Elham	2	2
Hayne	0	2
Lydden	0	3
Loningborough	0	2