Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HOUNSLOW	a town, a chapelry, and a quondam heath	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 Hounslow 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	5
William Camden	Middlesex and London	1
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	1
George Head	East Riding	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 9: Richmond to Windsor	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
Lampton	0	2
Spring Grove	0	2
Scrattage	0	2
Whitton	0	2
Heston	0	2
Isleworth	5	5
Osterley	0	2
Hounslow Heath	2	0
Norwood	1	3
St Margarets	0	1
Twickenham	3	2
Fulwell	0	2
Brentford End	0	1
Cranford	0	3
Strawberry Hill	0	2
Marble Hill	0	2
Brentford	15	2
Richmond	41	2
Hatton	0	2
Feltham	0	2