Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hanham	township and village	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 Hanham 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.
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath	6
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	2
Charles Wesley	Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again	1
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	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
Kingswood By Bitton	0	2
Oldland	0	2
Two Mile Hill	0	2
St George	0	2
Warmley	0	2
Moorfields	0	1
Brislington	0	2
Fishponds	0	2
Lawrence Hill	0	1
Barton Hill	0	1
Stockwood	0	1
Easton	0	3
Stapleton	0	2
Bridge Yate	0	2
Knowle	0	2
Bitton	0	2
Siston	1	2
Down End	0	3
Mangotsfield	0	2
Weir	0	2