Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Shepperton	parish	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 Shepperton 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 Cobbett	Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband	1
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	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
Halliford	0	2
Coway Stakes	0	2
Ham Haw	0	2
Littleton	0	2
Sunbury on Thames	0	2
Oatlands	0	2
Laleham	0	2
Weybridge	1	2
Walton upon Thames	0	2
Spelthorne	0	2
Addlestone	0	2
Kempton Park	0	2
Ashford	0	2
Hersham	0	2
New Haw	0	2
West Molesey	0	3
Chertsey	11	3
Elmbridge	0	2
Thorpe	0	2
Staines	20	3