Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Albury parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
NEWLANDS-CORNER a fine spot 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 Albury 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 Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex 4
William Cobbett Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen 1
William Cobbett Oct. 19th to 21st, 1825: Across Surrey 1
William Cobbett Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington 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
Farley Green 0 2
St Martha 15 4
Shere 5 4
Wonersh 1 2
Shamley Green 0 2
Gomshall 0 2
Blackheath 0 2
Shalford 1 2
Merrow 6 2
West Clandon 0 3
Grafham 0 2
East Clandon 1 3
Bramley 0 2
Holmbury 0 2
St Catherine 0 2
Guildford 38 3
West Horsley 0 3
Abinger 0 2
Stoke Next Guildford 0 2
Artington 0 2