Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Herne	parish	Bartholomew
HERNE	a village, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial
Herne Bay	watering-place	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beltinge	hamlet	Bartholomew
BELTINGE	a hamlet	Imperial
Broomfield	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAMPTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Hampton on Sea	hamlet	Bartholomew
Haw	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAW, or How	a hamlet	Imperial
Herne Common	tract	Bartholomew
Hunter's Fostal	hamlet	Bartholomew
STROOD	a hamlet	Imperial
Stroud Park	seat	Bartholomew
Thornden	hamlet	Bartholomew
THORNDEN	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 Herne Bay 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.
George Head	Visiting Mull	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
Bleangate	0	2
Hampton	0	3
Reculver	4	2
Hoath	0	2
Chislet	0	2
Swalecliffe	1	2
Sturry	0	2
Westbere	0	2
Grove Ferry	0	2
Preston By Wingham	0	4
Stodmarsh	0	2
Wickhambreaux	0	2
Hackington	1	3
Fordwich	4	2
Sarre	5	2
St Nicholas At Wade	0	2
Whitstable	3	3
Stourmouth	2	2
Blean	0	2
Downhamford	0	2