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 Tunbridge Wells. You may be able to find further references to Tunbridge Wells in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| TUNBRIDGE-WELLS | a town, six chapelries, and a sub-district | 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 Tunbridge Wells 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 9 |
| Celia Fiennes | Tunbridge Wells and Rye | 7 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 5 |
| Celia Fiennes | 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover | 3 |
| Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 2 |
| Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: York and Scarborough | 2 |
| Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: Coventry to London | 2 |
| Robert Gammage | Liverpool and London in 1842 | 2 |
| Henry Broadhurst | In Journeyings Often | 1 |
| William Cobbett | Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent | 1 |
| William Cobbett | Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen | 1 |
| Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Washlingstone | 0 | 2 |
| Broadwater | 0 | 2 |
| Rusthall | 0 | 2 |
| Southborough | 1 | 2 |
| Frant | 1 | 2 |
| Speldhurst | 2 | 2 |
| Pembury | 0 | 2 |
| Langton Green | 0 | 3 |
| Bidborough | 0 | 2 |
| Eridge Green | 0 | 2 |
| Groombridge | 0 | 2 |
| Fordcombe | 0 | 3 |
| Little Bayham | 0 | 2 |
| Tudeley | 0 | 2 |
| Ashurst | 4 | 2 |
| Tonbridge | 23 | 5 |
| Penshurst | 1 | 2 |
| Bayham | 0 | 2 |
| Capel | 0 | 2 |
| Matfield | 0 | 2 |