Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wilton	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Galmington	hamlet	Bartholomew
GALMINGTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Shurford	hamlet	Bartholomew
SHURFORD	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 Wilton 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 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury 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
Taunton	31	4
Rowbarton	0	1
Holway	0	2
Bishops Hull	0	2
Trull	0	2
Stoke St Mary	0	2
Staplegrove	0	2
Orchard Portman	1	2
Cheddon Fitzpaine	0	2
Ruishton	0	2
Norton Fitzwarren	0	2
Pitminster	0	2
Bradford	0	2
Thurlbear	0	2
Angersleigh	0	2
Corfe	0	2
West Monkton	0	3
Hillfarrance	0	2
Kingston	0	3
Thorn Falcon	0	2