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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Epsom. You may be able to find further references to Epsom in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | EPSOM | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | Epsom (or Mid) Division | parlimentary division | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Epsom.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Clayhill | hamlet | Bartholomew | CLAYHILL | a hamlet | Imperial | Horton | hamlet | Bartholomew | HORTON | a hamlet | 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 Epsom 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 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 21 | Celia Fiennes | Epsom, Surrey | 5 | Celia Fiennes | Epsom | 4 | Celia Fiennes | 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover | 3 | Celia Fiennes | Hampton Court and Windsor | 3 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District | 2 | William Cobbett | Jan. 8th to 11th, 1822: Sussex Journal | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: Coventry to London | 1 | John Wesley | 1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners | 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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Ewell | 0 | 2 |
Horton | 0 | 2 |
Cuddington | 2 | 2 |
Nork | 0 | 2 |
Nonsuch Park | 0 | 2 |
Chessington | 0 | 2 |
Ashtead | 0 | 2 |
Cheam | 0 | 2 |
Hook | 0 | 2 |
Belmont | 0 | 1 |
Copthorne | 0 | 2 |
Tadworth | 0 | 1 |
Tolworth | 0 | 2 |
Malden | 1 | 2 |
Claygate | 0 | 2 |
Sutton | 5 | 2 |
Walton on the Hill | 0 | 3 |
Oxshott | 0 | 2 |
Long Ditton | 0 | 3 |
Leatherhead | 16 | 2 |