''England's Gazetteer, or, an accurate description of all the cities, towns, and villages of the kingdom'' was a large

road atlas A road map, route map, or street map is a map that primarily displays roads and transport links rather than natural geographical information. It is a type of navigational map that commonly includes political boundaries and labels, making it ...

printed in the mid 18th century. The ''Gazetteer'' was written by Stephen Whatley (1712–1741) and was published in three separate editions, each of which offered maps of the roads of

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

and

Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...

. Editions 1 and 2 included a dictionary of the cities,

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market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rura ...

s, and the most-noted villages. Edition 3 went further, including an alphabetical register of the less noted villages with their distance, or bearing, from the next market town or well known place. In

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

, it was published by J. and P. Knapton, D. Browne, A. Millar, J. Whiston and B. White. nternet Archive https://archive.org/details/englandsgazettee02whatiala/ref>

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