Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Rotherfield hundred Bartholomew
Rotherfield parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
ERIDGE GREEN a village Imperial
Lake Street hamlet Bartholomew
MARK-CROSS 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 Rotherfield 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 Camden Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 2

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
Jarvis Brook 0 1
Crowborough 0 2
Mark Cross 0 2
Eridge Green 0 2
Withyham 0 2
Groombridge 0 2
Mayfield 0 2
Frant 1 2
Tidebrook 0 2
Broadwater 0 2
Loxfield Pelham 0 2
Hadlow Down 0 2
High Hurst Wood 0 1
Buxted 0 2
Langton Green 0 3
Ashdown Forest 0 2
Ashurst 4 2
Speldhurst 2 2
Wadhurst 0 2
Rusthall 0 2