Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Selbourne	hundred	Bartholomew
Selbourne	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BLACKMOOR	a chapelry	Imperial
Norton	hamlet	Bartholomew
NORTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Oakhanger	village	Bartholomew
OAKHANGER	a hamlet	Imperial
TEMPLE	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 Selborne 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	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	11
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	4
William Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	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
Blackmoor	0	2
Empshott	0	2
Norton	0	1
Greatham	8	2
Hartley Mauditt	0	2
West Worldham	0	2
Hawkley	13	2
East Worldham	0	2
Kingsley	0	2
Newton Valence	0	2
Priors Dean	0	3
Liss	0	4
Headley	0	2
Farringdon	0	3
Bramshott	0	2
Liphook	0	2
Neatham	0	2
Binsted	0	2
East Tisted	5	2
Colemore	0	3