Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HIGHWORTH	a small town, a tything, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Highworth, Cricklade, and Staple	hundred	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blunsdon, Broad	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BLUNSDON (Broad)	a chapelry	Imperial
Bury Blunsdon	tithing	Bartholomew
BURY-BLUNSDON	a tything	Imperial
Eastrop	hamlet	Bartholomew
EASTROP	a tything	Imperial
Fresdon	tithing	Bartholomew
FRESDON	a tything	Imperial
Hyde	hamlet	Bartholomew
MARSTON (SOUTH)	a chapelry	Imperial
Sevenhampton	village	Bartholomew
SEVENHAMPTON	a chapelry	Imperial
WESTROP	a tything	Imperial
Westrop Park	seat	Bartholomew

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 Highworth 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 Cobbett	Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury	3
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	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
Sevenhampton	0	2
Stanton Fitzwarren	0	2
Hannington	1	2
South Marston	0	2
Watchfield	0	2
Coleshill	9	2
Broad Blunsdon	0	2
Bourton	0	2
Shrivenham	0	3
Inglesham	0	2
Stratton St Margaret	0	2
Castle Eaton	0	2
Beckett	0	2
Buscot	0	2
Upper Stratton	0	2
Blunsdon St Andrew	0	3
Longcott	0	2
Great Coxwell	0	2
Kempsford	2	2
Haydon	0	2