Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Speldhurst	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
GROOMBRIDGE	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
LANGTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Langton Green	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
Rusthall	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
RUSTHALL	a chapelry	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 Speldhurst 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.
John Byng	A Tour into Kent, 1790	1
Celia Fiennes	Tunbridge Wells and Rye	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
Langton Green	0	3
Rusthall	0	2
Fordcombe	0	3
Groombridge	0	2
Ashurst	4	2
Washlingstone	0	2
Broadwater	0	2
Penshurst	1	2
Tunbridge Wells	37	2
Bidborough	0	2
Eridge Green	0	2
Southborough	1	2
Frant	1	2
Somerden	0	2
Withyham	0	2
Leigh	3	2
Chiddingstone	1	2
Mark Beech	0	2
Rotherfield	2	3
Cowden	0	2