Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MAIDENHEAD	a town and two chapelries	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 Maidenhead 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 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	8
Karl Moritz	Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford	7
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	3
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	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
Boyne Hill	0	2
Cookham	0	3
Taplow	1	2
Bisham	6	2
Cookham Dean	0	2
Beynhurst	0	2
Stubbings	0	2
Bray	3	3
Littlewick Green	0	2
White Waltham	0	3
Burchetts Green	0	2
Cliveden	0	2
Touchen End	0	2
Hitcham	0	2
Dorney	0	2
Shottesbrooke	0	2
Bourne End	0	3
Hedsor	0	2
Knowl Hill	0	2
Hurley	1	2