St Peter, Kent : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
PETER (St.) a village and a parish Imperial
St Peter Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Beard's Hill hamlet Bartholomew
BEARD'S HILL a hamlet Imperial
Broadstairs town and railway station Bartholomew
BROADSTAIRS a village and a chapelry Imperial
Bromston hamlet Bartholomew
BROMSTON a hamlet Imperial
Buddles hamlet Bartholomew
BUDDLES a hamlet Imperial
Callis Court and Callis Grange adjacent hamlets Bartholomew
CALLIS-COURT and CALLIS-GRANGE a hamlet and a tything Imperial
Dane Court hamlet Bartholomew
DANE-COURT a hamlet Imperial
Fair Street hamlet Bartholomew
FAIR STREET a hamlet Imperial
George Hill hamlet Bartholomew
JOSS-STREET a hamlet Imperial
Kingsgate coastal hamlet Bartholomew
KINGSGATE a hamlet Imperial
Nash hamlet Bartholomew
NASH a hamlet Imperial
POOR-HOLE a hamlet Imperial
READING-STREET a hamlet Imperial
ROMFIELDS a hamlet Imperial
Sacketts Hill hamlet Bartholomew
SACKETTS-HILL a hamlet Imperial
SHALLOWS a hamlet Imperial
SOLE-STREET a hamlet Imperial
STONE a hamlet Imperial
Upton hamlet Bartholomew
UPTON a hamlet Imperial
WESTWOOD a hamlet Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Northdown 0 2
Broadstairs 1 2
Stone 0 1
North Foreland 0 3
Kingsgate 0 2
St Lawrence 0 3
Ellington 0 2
Cliftonville 0 1
Ramsgate 5 2
Garlinge 0 2
Margate 11 2
Manston 0 2
Pegwell 0 2
Thanet 19 3
Westgate on Sea 0 4
Acol 0 3
Ebbs Fleet 0 2
Minster 2 2
Birchington 0 2
Monkton 3 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
PETER ST John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST PETER 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).

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.