Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Shorne and Merston	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Knights Place	hamlet	Bartholomew
Thong	hamlet	Bartholomew
THONG	a hamlet	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 Shorne 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 Byng	A Tour into Kent, 1790	2
William Camden	Kent	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
Merston	0	2
Chalk	1	2
Gads Hill	0	2
Higham	0	2
Denton	0	2
Gravesend	29	2
Cobham	1	2
Shamwell	0	2
Ifield	0	2
Milton	6	2
Cuxton	0	2
Strood	0	2
Toltingtrough	0	2
Frindsbury	0	2
East Tilbury	2	3
Rosherville	0	2
Perry Street	0	2
Northfleet	4	2
Nursted	0	2
Rochester	56	5