Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Havant market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Brockhampton tithing Bartholomew
BROCKHAMPTON a tything Imperial
Durrants hamlet Bartholomew
Leigh hamlet Bartholomew
LEIGH a tything Imperial
REDHILL a chapelry Imperial
Rowlands Castle village with railway station Bartholomew
ROWLANDS-CASTLE 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 Havant 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 July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire 4
William Camden Wiltshire and Hampshire 1
William Cobbett Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey 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
Langston 0 2
Bosmere 0 2
North Hayling 0 2
Bedhampton 2 2
Farlington 0 2
Warblington 1 2
Emsworth 0 2
Leigh Park 0 2
Salterns 0 2
South Hayling 1 5
Purbrook 0 2
West Thorney 0 2
Hilsea 0 2
Cosham 0 2
Southbourne 0 1
Redhill 0 2
Widley 0 2
Waterloo 0 3
Wymering 0 2
Westbourne 2 3