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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hammersmith. You may be able to find further references to Hammersmith in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HAMMERSMITH | a metropolitan suburb and a parish | Imperial | HAMMERSMITH AND CITY RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Hammersmith.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Shepherd's Bush | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | STARCH-GREEN | a place | Imperial |
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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 Hammersmith 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 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 3 | William Cobbett | Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Moving to London | 1 | Karl Moritz | Chapter 8: London to Richmond | 1 |
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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 |
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Brook Green | 0 | 1 |
Shepherds Bush | 0 | 2 |
Northend | 0 | 2 |
Campden Hill | 0 | 1 |
Earls Court | 0 | 2 |
Norlands | 0 | 1 |
Kensington | 21 | 3 |
Chiswick | 3 | 2 |
West Brompton | 0 | 2 |
Notting Hill | 0 | 2 |
Turnham Green | 0 | 2 |
Barnes | 1 | 2 |
Kensington Gravel Pits | 0 | 1 |
Walham Green | 0 | 2 |
Parsons Green | 0 | 2 |
Acton Green | 0 | 1 |
Fulham | 8 | 2 |
Wormwood Scrubs | 0 | 2 |
Westbourne Park | 0 | 2 |
South Acton | 0 | 1 |