Maldon, Essex : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Maldon municipal borough Bartholomew
MALDON a town, three parishes, two sub-districts, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Beeleigh hamlet Bartholomew
BEELEIGH a hamlet Imperial

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 Maldon 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 Camden Essex and Suffolk 8
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester 6
William Camden Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to letter 1 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 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
Mundon 0 2
Goldhanger 0 2
Heybridge 1 2
Little Totham 0 3
Beeleigh 0 2
Great Totham 0 2
Hazeleigh 0 2
Thurstable 0 2
Tolleshunt Major 0 2
Langford 0 2
Snoreham 0 2
Steeple 0 2
Purleigh 0 2
Tolleshunt Darcy 0 2
Woodham Mortimer 0 2
Mayland 0 2
Latchingdon 0 2
Wickham Bishops 0 2
Woodham Walter 1 2
Cold Norton 0 3

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Maldon. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
IDUMANIA John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MALDEN 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).
MALDON 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).
MALDUN William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MALDUNE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MEALDUNE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.