Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blendon	hamlet	Bartholomew
BLENDON	a hamlet	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 Blendon 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.
Charles Wesley	1738: Around London, and Oxfordshire	7
Charles Wesley	Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon	6
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol	4
Charles Wesley	Jan. 2 - Apr. 30, 1739: London and Oxford	2
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol	2
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	2

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
Lamorbey	0	3
Welling	0	2
Bexleyheath	0	2
Halfway Street	0	2
Bexley	18	2
North Cray	2	2
Sidcup	0	2
East Wickham	0	2
Foots Cray	3	3
Crayford	2	2
Ruxley	0	3
Abbey Wood	0	2
Shooters Hill	0	2
Eltham	15	2
Lessness	0	2
Belvedere	0	2
Plumstead	0	2
St Pauls Cray	1	3
Chislehurst	0	2
Slade Green	0	2