Hereford is where Eleanor claims her father, General Tilney, is taking the whole family--the reason Catherine has to leave immediately. 

Putney is the home of IsabellaThorpe's family. 

Catherine's brother, James, studies at Oxford University. 

Henry Tilney is rector at Woodston (fictional) in Gloucestershire. 

Thorpe's destination with Catherine, Isabella, and James is Clifton and Blaize Castle, two miles beyond Bristol--except they only make it halfway there--Thorpe blames James' d---- horse.   

Genoa is a Mediterranean porty city in the Italian region of Liguria (Britannica). It serves as a scene of revelation and tragedy in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, playing host to Deronda’s discovery of his Jewish heritage and the death of Gwendolen Harleth’s husband, Grandcourt. Genoa, and Italy as a whole, have been connected to Judaism throughout history. In 1797, the region of Liguria was taken over by France, which instituted a policy of religious tolerance (Rossi 113).