A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Calne. You may be able to find further references to Calne in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Calne | hundred | Bartholomew | CALNE | a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred | Imperial | CALNE RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Calne.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | BEVERSBROOK | a tything | Imperial | BLACKLAND | a tything | Imperial | CALSTONE | a tything | Imperial | Derry Hill | village | Bartholomew | EAST MEAD STREET | a Tything | Imperial | QUEMERFORD | a tything | Imperial | STOCK | a tything | Imperial | STOCKLEY | a tything | Imperial | STUDLEY | a tything | Imperial | WHETHAM | a tything | Imperial | WHITLEY | a tything | Imperial |
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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 Calne 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. | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands | 5 | William Camden | Wiltshire and Hampshire | 1 | William Cobbett | Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth | 1 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire | 1 |
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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 Hist. Gazetteer |
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| Compton Bassett | 0 | 2 |
| Bowood | 8 | 2 |
| Blackland | 0 | 2 |
| Calstone Wellington | 0 | 2 |
| Derry Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Charlton | 0 | 1 |
| Stanley | 0 | 1 |
| Heddington | 0 | 2 |
| Bremhill | 0 | 2 |
| Cherhill | 0 | 2 |
| Hilmarton | 0 | 2 |
| Highway | 0 | 2 |
| Pewsham | 0 | 2 |
| Tytherton | 0 | 2 |
| Chittoe | 0 | 2 |
| Tytherton Lucas | 0 | 2 |
| Bromham | 3 | 2 |
| Bowden Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Yatesbury | 1 | 2 |
| Avon | 0 | 3 |