Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Porlock	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bossington	tithing	Bartholomew
BOSSINGTON	a tything	Imperial
Hancombe	village	Bartholomew
YEARNOR	a tything	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 Porlock 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	3
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	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
Stoke Pero	0	2
Culbone	0	3
Luccombe	0	3
Bossington	0	2
Oare	0	2
Holnicote	0	2
Selworthy	0	2
Glenthorne	0	2
Exford	0	2
Wootton Courtenay	0	2
Cutcombe	0	2
Brendon	0	3
Countisbury	0	2
Timberscombe	0	2
Minehead	7	2
Exmoor	1	2
Staunton	0	2
Simonsbath	0	2
Winsford	0	2
Alcombe	0	2