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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Sevenoaks. You may be able to find further references to Sevenoaks in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | SEVENOAKS | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | SEVENOAKS, MAIDSTONE, and TUNBRIDGE RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Sevenoaks.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Kippington | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | KNOLE | a noble mansion | Imperial | MONTREAL | the seat | Imperial | NESS (Great) | a hamlet | Imperial | RIVERHEAD | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | Weald | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew | WEALD | a chapelry, with a village | Imperial |
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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 Sevenoaks 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 | Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal | 4 | William Cobbett | Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen | 4 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East | 2 | Robert Gammage | On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast | 2 | William Camden | Kent | 1 | William Cobbett | Jan. 8th to 11th, 1822: Sussex Journal | 1 | John Wesley | 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost | 1 | John Wesley | 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents | 1 | John Wesley | 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon | 1 |
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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 |
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Knole | 0 | 2 |
Kippington | 0 | 1 |
Riverhead | 1 | 2 |
Greatness | 0 | 2 |
Seal | 0 | 2 |
Chevening | 0 | 2 |
Underriver | 0 | 2 |
Chipstead | 0 | 2 |
Sevenoaks Weald | 0 | 2 |
Codsheath | 0 | 2 |
Dunton Green | 0 | 2 |
Otford | 3 | 2 |
Kemsing | 0 | 2 |
Sundridge | 0 | 2 |
Ivy Hatch | 0 | 2 |
Ightham | 0 | 2 |
Oldbury | 0 | 2 |
Ide Hill | 0 | 2 |
Shipbourne | 0 | 2 |
Hildenborough | 0 | 2 |