Windsor, Berkshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
WINDSOR a town, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
WINDSOR CASTLE an extra-parochial royal seat Imperial
Windsor (New) parliamentary and municipal borough and parish Bartholomew
WINDSOR (New) a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
DEDWORTH 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 Windsor 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 9: Richmond to Windsor 14
William Camden Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 11
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Exeter to London 11
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire 9
Celia Fiennes Hampton Court and Windsor 7
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester 6
Paul Hentzner A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor 6
William Cobbett Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex 5
Karl Moritz Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford 5
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire 4
Charles Wesley Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland 2
Celia Fiennes London, part 5 2
Karl Moritz Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire 2
Thomas Pennant Gorhambury and Verulamium 2
Henry Broadhurst In Journeyings Often 1
John Byng A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: June 1
William Cobbett Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming 1
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland 1
Celia Fiennes Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey 1
Celia Fiennes Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester 1
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Lancaster to Carlisle 1
Celia Fiennes Another tour of the Midlands 1
Paul Hentzner Arrival and London 1
John Wesley 1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness 1
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 1
Karl Moritz Introduction 1
Karl Moritz Chapter 8: London to Richmond 1
Thomas Pennant Tamworth to Meriden 1
Thomas Pennant Northampton to Gothurst 1
Thomas Pennant Tyringham to Woburn 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
Clewer 0 2
Frogmore 0 2
Dedworth 0 2
Eton 17 2
Boveney 0 2
Old Windsor 1 3
Datchet 0 2
Bishopsgate 0 2
Chalvey 0 2
Braywood 0 1
Upton 0 2
Cranbourne 0 2
Salt Hill 0 2
Slough 4 2
Dorney 0 2
Ditton 0 2
Englefield Green 0 2
Wyrardisbury 0 4
Horton 0 2
Winkfield 1 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CASTLE Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
NEW WINDSOR John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WINDESOR William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WINDESORE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WINDLESOR William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WINDSOR John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WINDSOR CASTLE Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WINDSORE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WINDSOR NEW 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).
WINSOR Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
WINSOR CASTLE Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
WYNDLESHORA 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.