Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Billingshurst	parish and village with railway station	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 Billingshurst 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	3
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	1
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	1
Celia Fiennes	Tunbridge Wells and Rye	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
West Easwrith	0	2
East Easwrith	0	2
Wisborough Green	0	2
Itchingfield	0	2
West Chiltington	0	4
Pulborough	0	2
Shipley	0	2
Slinfold	0	2
Southwater	0	2
Rudgwick	0	2
Loxwood	0	2
Thakenham	0	2
Kirdford	0	2
Stopham	0	2
Warminghurst	0	2
Wiggonholt	0	2
Hardham	2	2
Fittleworth	0	2
Plaistow	0	2
Nuthurst	0	2