Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CANFORD	a subdistrict	Imperial
Canford Magna	parish and township	Bartholomew
Great Canford	parish and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Canford, Little	village	Bartholomew
Ensbury	village	Bartholomew
Highmoor	village	Bartholomew
Kinson (or Kingstone)	township and village	Bartholomew
Knighton	village	Bartholomew
KNIGHTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Merly House	seat	Bartholomew
Moretown	hamlet	Bartholomew
MORETOWN	a hamlet	Imperial
Oakley	hamlet	Bartholomew
Parkstone	township and railway station	Bartholomew
PARKSTONE	a village, a tything, and a chapelry	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 Canford Magna 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	Dorset and Somerset	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
Broadstone	0	1
Lytchett	0	1
Poole	10	3
Branksome	0	1
Cogdean	0	2
Kinson	0	3
Longfleet	0	2
Leigh	0	2
Parkstone	0	2
Wimborne Minster	13	3
Corfe Mullen	0	2
Little Canford	0	3
Hamworthy	0	2
Ensbury	0	1
Hampreston	0	2
Winton	0	1
Moordown	0	1
Lytchett Minster	0	2
Kingston Lacy	0	2
Pamphill	0	1