Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Droxford parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Hill tithing Bartholomew
HILL a tything Imperial
Shidfield ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
Shirrell Heath hamlet Bartholomew
SHIRRELL-HEATH a hamlet Imperial
Swanmore village Bartholomew

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 Droxford 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 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
Swanmore 0 3
Bishops Waltham 4 4
Soberton 5 2
Corhampton 1 2
Shedfield 0 3
Newtown 0 2
Meonstoke 3 4
Exton 4 2
Upham 4 2
Wickham 1 3
Curdridge 0 2
Durley 7 2
Hambledon 14 3
Warnford 2 2
Boarhunt 0 2
Beauworth 3 2
Kilmiston 5 2
Denmead 0 2
Botley 24 2
Owslebury 1 2