Barnet, Hertfordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Barnet market town Bartholomew
BARNET a town, a parish a subdistrict, and a district Imperial
Barnet, Chipping parish Bartholomew
Barnet, High railway station Bartholomew
Chipping Barnet parish Bartholomew
High Barnet 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 Barnet 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.
Thomas Pennant St Albans to London 7
John Byng A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade 3
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May 3
William Camden Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire 2
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 2
John Byng A Tour into Kent, 1790 1
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: September 1
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: Coventry to London 1
Karl Moritz Chapter 13: Northampton to London 1
Thomas Pennant Enfield to London 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
Monken Hadley 8 3
New Barnet 0 1
Arkley 0 1
Totteridge 1 2
East Barnet 0 3
Whetstone 3 2
Bentley Heath 0 2
Highwood Hill 0 2
Woodside Park 0 1
Mill Hill 0 2
Friern Barnet 1 3
Trent 0 3
Potters Bar 1 2
South Mimms 3 3
Elstree 1 2
Colney Hatch 1 2
Borehamwood 0 1
Finchley 2 2
New Southgate 0 2
Southgate 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BARNET John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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).
BARNET CHIPPING John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BARNET HIGH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BERGNET Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
BERNET William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CHEPING BARNET Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
CHIPPING BARNET John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
HIGH BARNET John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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.