Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Sonning	hundred	Bartholomew
Sonning	township and village	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
EARLEIGH, Earley, or Early	a liberty and a chapelry	Imperial
Earley	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
HOLME-PARK	the seat	Imperial
Sandford	village	Bartholomew
SANDFORD	a liberty	Imperial
Woodley and Sandford	township	Bartholomew
WOODLEY and SANDFORD	a liberty	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 Sonning 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
Woodley	0	2
Holme Park	0	2
Sonning Eye	0	2
Earley	0	2
Whistley	0	1
Winnersh	0	2
Twyford	5	2
Dunsden	0	1
Caversham	1	2
Hurst	0	2
Broad Hinton	0	3
Coley	0	2
Bearwood	0	2
Ruscombe	0	2
Reading	52	4
Shiplake	0	2
Newland	0	2
Charlton	0	2
Harpsden	0	2
Kiln Green	0	2