Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HARROW-ON-THE-HILL	a parish	Imperial
Harrow (or Harrow on the Hill)	town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alperton	hamlet	Bartholomew
ALPERTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Bentley Priory	seat	Bartholomew
FLAMBARDS	a mansion	Imperial
GREENHILL	a chapelry	Imperial
Harrow Weald	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
HARROW-WEALD	a hamlet and a chapelry	Imperial
Kenton	hamlet	Bartholomew
KENTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Preston	hamlet	Bartholomew
PRESTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Roxeth	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
ROXETH	a hamlet and a chapelry	Imperial
Sudbury	hamlet	Bartholomew
SUDBURY	a hamlet	Imperial
WEMBLEY	a chapelry	Imperial
Westend	hamlet	Bartholomew
WESTEND	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 Harrow 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	2
William Camden	Middlesex and London	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	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
Greenhill	0	2
Roxeth	0	2
Headstone	0	1
Wealdstone	0	1
Sudbury	0	2
Kenton	0	2
Harrow Weald	0	2
Preston	0	2
Hatch End	0	2
Pinner	0	2
Wembley	0	2
Northolt	0	2
Great Stanmore	0	2
Eastcote	0	2
Alperton	0	2
Kingsbury	0	2
Perivale	0	2
Gore	0	2
Greenford	0	2
Edgware	8	2