Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer of England
The complete index of England in alphabetical order of placename.
The following names are assigned as a "county" in one or more placename entries in a volume of Whatley's Gazetteer of England. Places assigned by Whatley to more than one county are indexed under Miscellaneous, as are places for which Whatley assigns no county. The county of "Channel Islands" has been added.
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Channel Islands
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Cumberland
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- Durham
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Middlesex
- Miscellaneous
- Monmouthshire
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Rutland
- Salop
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Warwickshire
- Westmorland
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire
- Yorkshire East Riding
- Yorkshire West Riding
- Yorkshire North Riding
- Miscellaneous
AN EXPLANATION OF The most common Words, which are abbreviated in this Work, for the sake of reducing it to a Size for the Pocket.
| Abp. | Archbishop. |
| ald. | Aldermen. |
| almsh. | Alms-house. |
| Bor. | Borough. |
| Bp. | Bishop. |
| Bpk. | Bishopric. |
| bel. | belonging. |
| bet. | between. |
| b. | borders. |
| Co. | County. |
| C. C. | Com. Council. |
| Ch. | Church. |
| ch. sc. | Charity School. |
| com. | compass. |
| Corp. | Corporation. |
| D. and C. | Dean and Chap. |
| D. | Duke. |
| Diss. | Dissolution of Monasteries. |
| E. | East. |
| E. R. | East Riding |
| W. R. | West Riding |
| N. R. | North Riding |
| F. | Friday. |
| fr. sc. | Free School. |
| Gt. | Government. |
| H. | Hundred. |
| hos. | Hospital. |
| inh. | Inhabitants. |
| K. | King. |
| Km. | Kingdom. |
| Ld. | Lord. |
| Lp. | Lordship. |
| M. | Monday. |
| cm. | computed miles. |
| mm. | measured miles. |
| mf. | Manufacture. |
| mon. | Monastery. |
| Mt. | Market. |
| N. | North. |
| p. | parish. |
| Pt. | Parliament. |
| Q. | Queen. |
| R. | Reign. |
| Ref. | Reformation. |
| r. | river. |
| S. | Saturday. |
| S. | South. |
| T. | Town. |
| Th. | Thursday. |
| Tu. | Tuesday. |
| U. | University. |
| Visc. | Viscount. |
| W. | Wednesday. |
| W. | West. |
N.B. Every City or Borough, that sends Members to Parliament, is distinguished by a *.
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