Newington, Surrey : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Newington parliamentary borough and parish Bartholomew
NEWINGTON a quondam village, a parish, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kennington Park ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Walworth district and railway station Bartholomew
WALWORTH a metropolitan suburb and three chapelries 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 Newington 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 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs 5
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey 2
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
John Wesley 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life 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
Walworth 0 2
Southwark 44 6
Borough 0 2
Lambeth 9 2
Kennington 25 2
Waterloo 0 5
Vauxhall 15 2
Horsleydown 0 2
Westminster 108 7
Bermondsey 1 2
Billingsgate 3 0
Camberwell 5 2
Inner Temple 1 1
Tower of London 0 6
Middle Temple 1 2
Duchy of Lancaster 0 1
Strand 2 5
Newgate 2 0
St Katherine 0 2
Charing Cross 1 4

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
NEWETON John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
NEWINGTON 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).
NEWINGTON BUTTS Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
NEWNTON John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

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.