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Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Merton. You may be able to find further references to Merton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Lower Merton | railway station | Bartholomew | MERTON | a village and a parish | Imperial | Merton, Lower | railway station | Bartholomew |
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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 Merton 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 | 3 | Thomas Pennant | Part II: Daventry to Northampton | 1 |
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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 |
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Wimbledon | 4 | 3 |
Raynes Park | 0 | 1 |
Summerstown | 0 | 2 |
Morden | 1 | 2 |
Garrat | 0 | 2 |
Tooting | 0 | 1 |
Tooting Graveney | 0 | 2 |
Mitcham | 1 | 2 |
Earlsfield | 0 | 1 |
Upper Tooting | 0 | 2 |
New Malden | 0 | 2 |
Coombe | 0 | 2 |
Kingston Vale | 0 | 2 |
Wandsworth | 2 | 2 |
Roehampton | 0 | 2 |
Kingston Hill | 0 | 1 |
Balham | 0 | 2 |
Benhilton | 0 | 1 |
Putney | 0 | 2 |
Malden | 1 | 2 |