Bow, Middlesex : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BOW a parish and a subdistrict Imperial
Bow, or Stratford-le-Bow parish and railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Old Ford 2 ecclesiastical districts Bartholomew
OLD FORD a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry Imperial
Victoria Park ecclesiastical district and railway station 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 Bow 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 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire 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
Bromley 0 2
Bow Common 0 1
Old Ford 1 2
Stratford Marsh 0 1
Mile End 4 3
Victoria Park 0 3
West Ham 2 3
Stratford 9 2
Tower Hamlets 0 2
Hackney Wick 0 1
Stepney 5 2
Limehouse 10 2
Poplar 5 3
Canning Town 0 3
South Hackney 0 1
Ratcliffe 8 2
Blackwall 6 2
Bethnal Green 6 2
Homerton 1 2
Plaistow 4 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BOW 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).
BOW OR STRATFORD LE BOW John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
STRATFORD LE BOW John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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.