Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Henley railway station Bartholomew
HENLEY a sub-district and a district Imperial
Henley on Thames municipal borough, market town, and parish, with railway station Bartholomew
HENLEY-ON-THAMES a town and a parish Imperial
Henley (or Southern) Division parliamentary division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Emma Green hamlet 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 Henley on Thames 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.
Karl Moritz Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford 5
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire 3
William Gilpin Bristol to London 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Paul Hentzner A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 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 Historical Gazetteer
Badgemore 0 1
Harpsden 0 2
Remenham 0 2
Bolney 0 2
Binfield 0 2
Shiplake 0 2
Rotherfield Greys 1 3
Assendon 0 2
Fawley 1 2
Wargrave 0 3
Bix 0 2
Rotherfield Peppard 0 2
Dunsden 0 1
Sonning Eye 0 2
Highmoor 0 2
Hurley 1 2
Medmenham 0 2
Hambleden 0 2
Kiln Green 0 2
Twyford 5 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Henley on Thames. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
HANLEGAUZ William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
HENLEY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
William Gilpin Observations of the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (London: Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1800).
Paul Hentzner Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (London: Cassell, 1892).
Karl Moritz Travels in England in 1782 (London: Cassell and Company, 1886).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
HENLEY ON THAMES John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
HENLEY OR SOUTHERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
HENLEY UPON TAMIS William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
HENLY Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.