A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wrotham. You may be able to find further references to Wrotham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Wrotham | hundred | Bartholomew |
| Wrotham | town and parish with railway station | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Wrotham.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bastead | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| BOROUGH-GREEN | a hamlet | Imperial |
| Clackett Cross | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| CLACKETT-CROSS | a hamlet | Imperial |
| Comp, Great | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| COMP (Great) | a place | Imperial |
| Crouch | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| CROUCH | a hamlet | Imperial |
| DUNKS-GREEN | a hamlet | Imperial |
| Hale | village | Bartholomew |
| HALE | a township | Imperial |
| Nepicar | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| NEPICAR | a hamlet | Imperial |
| Platt | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
| PLATT | a chapelry | Imperial |
| PLAXTOL | a village and a chapelry | Imperial |
| Plaxtole | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
| WOODLANDS | a chapelry | Imperial |
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 Wrotham 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. |
|---|---|---|
| John Byng | A Tour into Kent, 1790 | 5 |
| William Camden | Kent | 2 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 2 |
| John Byng | A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Borough Green | 0 | 2 |
| Platt | 0 | 2 |
| Oldbury | 0 | 2 |
| Ightham | 0 | 2 |
| Ivy Hatch | 0 | 2 |
| Plaxtol | 0 | 2 |
| Offham | 0 | 2 |
| Addington | 0 | 2 |
| Trottiscliffe | 0 | 3 |
| Stansted | 0 | 2 |
| Seal | 0 | 2 |
| Malling | 0 | 1 |
| Kemsing | 0 | 2 |
| Oxenhoth | 0 | 1 |
| Shipbourne | 0 | 2 |
| West Peckham | 0 | 2 |
| Woodlands | 0 | 2 |
| Leybourne | 3 | 2 |
| Ryarsh | 0 | 2 |
| Mereworth | 4 | 2 |