Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MARGATE	a town, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Westgate	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Westgate on Sea	watering-place	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 Margate 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	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	2
William Camden	Kent	1
William Cobbett	Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
George Head	Hull	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
Garlinge	0	2
Westgate on Sea	0	4
Cliftonville	0	1
Northdown	0	2
Acol	0	3
Thanet	19	3
Manston	0	2
St Peter	0	2
Broadstairs	0	2
Birchington	0	2
Kingsgate	0	2
St Lawrence	0	3
Ramsgate	5	2
Stone	0	1
Ellington	0	2
North Foreland	0	3
Pegwell	0	2
Minster	2	2
Ebbs Fleet	0	2
Monkton	3	2