Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HACKNEY	a metropolitan suburb, a parish, a district, and a parliamentary borough	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BROOK-HOUSE, or Kingshold	an old seat	Imperial
Clapton	railway station and district	Bartholomew
CLAPTON	two chapelries	Imperial
Dalston	district with railway station	Bartholomew
DALSTON	a chapelry	Imperial
HACKNEY WICK	a hamlet	Imperial
Homerton	district and railway station	Bartholomew
HOMERTON	a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry	Imperial
Kingsland	district	Bartholomew
KINGSLAND	a quondam hamlet, now a metropolitan suburb	Imperial
South Hackney	district	Bartholomew
Stamford Hill	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
STAMFORD-HILL	a chapelry	Imperial
West Hackney	ecclesiastical district	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 Hackney 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	1
Celia Fiennes	1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	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
South Hackney	0	1
Homerton	0	2
Dalston	0	2
Shacklewell	0	2
Haggerston	0	2
Clapton	0	2
Victoria Park	0	3
Kingsland	0	2
De Beauvoir Town	0	2
Bethnal Green	6	2
Balls Pond	0	2
Newington Green	0	1
Hackney Wick	0	1
Shoreditch	8	2
Lea Bridge	0	2
Old Ford	0	2
Stoke Newington	6	2
Hoxton	0	2
Abney Park	0	2
Canonbury	0	2