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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dorking. You may be able to find further references to Dorking in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | DORKING | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Dorking.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HOLMWOOD | a tything | Imperial | Milton Court | old Tudor mansion | Bartholomew | MILTON-COURT | an old red-brick Tudor mansion | Imperial | Milton Street | village | Bartholomew | MILTON-STREET | a hamlet | Imperial | WESTCOTT | a chapelry | Imperial | Westcott (or Westgate) | ecclesiastical district | 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 Dorking 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 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 13 | William Cobbett | Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex | 3 | Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 3 | William Cobbett | Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey | 2 | William Cobbett | Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen | 2 | William Cobbett | Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 2 | William Cobbett | Oct. 19th to 21st, 1825: Across Surrey | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Epsom, Surrey | 1 | John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 1 | John Wesley | 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People | 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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Box Hill | 0 | 2 |
Mickleham | 5 | 2 |
Ranmore | 0 | 2 |
Brockham | 0 | 2 |
Mole Valley | 0 | 2 |
Milton Street | 0 | 2 |
Westcott | 0 | 2 |
Betchworth | 6 | 2 |
Headley | 0 | 2 |
Holmwood | 0 | 2 |
Great Bookham | 0 | 3 |
Buckland | 0 | 2 |
Fetcham | 0 | 2 |
Little Bookham | 0 | 2 |
Wotton | 1 | 3 |
Leatherhead | 16 | 2 |
Effingham | 1 | 3 |
Walton on the Hill | 0 | 3 |
Leigh | 0 | 2 |
Coldharbour | 0 | 2 |