Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DEPTFORD	a town and two parishes which are also sub-districts	Imperial
Deptford St Nicholas	parish	Bartholomew
Deptford St Paul	parish	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 Deptford 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 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs	14
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	2
Daniel Defoe	Preface to Second Volume	2
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales	1
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	1
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	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
Greenwich	33	3
Hatcham	0	2
Millwall	0	1
New Cross	0	2
the Isle of Dogs	0	3
Nunhead	0	2
South Bermondsey	0	1
Lewisham	12	2
Ladywell	0	2
Blackheath	0	2
Brockley	0	2
Westcombe Park	0	2
Rotherhithe	0	2
Peckham	0	2
Poplar	5	3
Kidbrooke	0	2
Honor Oak	0	3
Lee	0	2
Wapping	16	2
Ratcliffe	8	2