Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bruton	hundred	Bartholomew
Bruton	parish and market town with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DISCOVE, or Dishcove	a tything	Imperial
REDLYNCH	a chapelry	Imperial
Redlynch Park	seat	Bartholomew
Weeke (or Wyke) Champflower	curacy	Bartholomew
Wyke Champflower	hamlet	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 Bruton 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	2
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	1
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	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
Eastrip	0	2
Redlynch	0	2
Wyke Champflower	0	2
Milton Clevedon	0	2
Shepton Montague	0	2
Pitcombe	0	2
Lamyat	0	2
North Brewham	0	2
South Brewham	0	3
Ansford	0	3
Batcombe	0	2
Charlton Musgrove	0	2
Bratton Seymour	0	2
Four Towers	0	2
Upton Noble	0	2
Stavordale	0	2
Evercreech	0	2
Yarlington	0	2
Brewham Lodge	0	1
Castle Cary	7	2