Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Rolvenden	parish	Bartholomew
Rolvenden	hundred	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Forsham	hamlet	Bartholomew
FORSHAM	a place	Imperial
HOLE (THE)	a seat	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 Rolvenden 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.
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	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
Newenden	3	2
Losenham	0	2
Benenden	0	2
Tenterden	5	2
Smallhythe	0	2
Sandhurst	0	2
Wittersham	1	2
Selbrittenden	0	2
Oxney	0	2
Northiam	0	2
Beckley	0	2
Berkeley	0	2
Biddenden	0	2
Bodiam	1	2
Sissinghurst	0	4
Ebony	0	2
Stone	0	2
High Halden	0	3
Peasmarsh	0	2
Cranbrook	6	3