Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Thornbury	hundred	Bartholomew
Thornbury	market town, parish and township, with railway station	Bartholomew
Thornbury (or Southern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
FALFIELD	a tything and a chapelry	Imperial
KINGTON	a tything	Imperial
Moorton	hamlet	Bartholomew
MOORTON	a hamlet	Imperial
OLDBURY-UPON-SEVERN	a tything and a chapelry	Imperial
Rangeworthy	township and village	Bartholomew
RANGEWORTHY	a chapelry	Imperial
Shepherdine	hamlet	Bartholomew
SHEPHERDINE	a hamlet	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 Thornbury 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.
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	1
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	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 Hist. Gazetteer
Rockhampton	0	2
Kington	0	1
Oldbury upon Severn	1	2
Hill	0	2
Falfield	0	2
Littleton upon Severn	0	2
Elberton	0	2
Tytherington	0	2
Alveston	0	2
Stone	0	2
Tockington	0	2
Aust	6	2
Cromhall	0	2
Olveston	0	2
Tortworth	1	2
Ham	0	3
Rangeworthy	0	2
Alkington	0	2
Wickwar	1	2
Beachley	0	2