A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Greenwich. You may be able to find further references to Greenwich in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GREENWICH | a town, a parish, and a district | Imperial |
| GREENWICH RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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 Greenwich 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 8 |
| William Camden | Kent | 4 |
| John Byng | A Tour into Kent, 1790 | 2 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 2 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster | 2 |
| Karl Moritz | Chapter 2: Entering London | 2 |
| William Camden | Rest of Wales | 1 |
| Charles Wesley | Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Addenda to the first volume | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth | 1 |
| Robert Gammage | Liverpool and London in 1842 | 1 |
| Paul Hentzner | Arrival and London | 1 |
| Paul Hentzner | Greenwich | 1 |
| Paul Hentzner | Departure: Canterbury and Dover | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Deptford | 38 | 4 |
| the Isle of Dogs | 0 | 3 |
| Millwall | 0 | 1 |
| Westcombe Park | 0 | 2 |
| Blackheath | 0 | 2 |
| Kidbrooke | 0 | 2 |
| Lewisham | 12 | 2 |
| Hatcham | 0 | 2 |
| New Cross | 0 | 2 |
| Ladywell | 0 | 2 |
| Poplar | 5 | 3 |
| Lee | 0 | 2 |
| Charlton | 3 | 8 |
| Blackwall | 0 | 2 |
| Nunhead | 0 | 2 |
| Brockley | 0 | 2 |
| South Bermondsey | 0 | 1 |
| Silvertown | 0 | 2 |
| Rotherhithe | 0 | 2 |
| Limehouse | 10 | 2 |