Kingston upon Thames, Surrey : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kingston Bartholomew
Kingston hundred Bartholomew
Kingston upon Thames municipal borough, market town, parish, and township Bartholomew
KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Berrylands ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Coomb and Malden ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
COOMBE a chapelry Imperial
Ham Common local government district Bartholomew
Ham with Hatch township Bartholomew
Hatch hamlet Bartholomew
HATCH a hamlet Imperial
Hook township and hamlet Bartholomew
KINGSTON-GATE a place Imperial
Kingston Hill ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
KINGSTON-UPON-RAILWAY, or NEW KINGSTON a new town Imperial
Kingston Vale (or Robinhood Gate) ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Norbiton ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
ROBINHOOD-GATE, or Kingston-Vale a chapelry Imperial
Surbiton town with railway station Bartholomew
SURBITON a chapelry 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 Kingston upon Thames 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 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey 4
William Camden Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire 2
Celia Fiennes Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester 2
William Camden Kent 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Celia Fiennes Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey 1
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire 1
William Gilpin London to Ross 1
Paul Hentzner A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor 1
John Wesley 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery 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
Norbiton 0 1
Surbiton 0 2
Bushy Park 0 2
Hampton Court 32 2
Kingston Hill 0 1
Teddington 0 2
Ham 1 3
Hatch 0 2
Coombe 0 2
Long Ditton 0 3
New Malden 0 2
Tolworth 0 2
Petersham 3 2
Strawberry Hill 0 2
Hampton Hill 0 3
Kingston Vale 0 2
Hampton 4 3
Ember 0 2
East Molesey 2 4
Twickenham 3 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Kingston upon Thames. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
KINGSSTON Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
KINGSTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
William Gilpin Observations of the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (London: Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1800).
Paul Hentzner Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (London: Cassell, 1892).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
KINGSTONE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
KINGSTON ON THE THAMES Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
KINGSTON UPON THAMES 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).
MOREFORD 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.