Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Corfe Castle	small town, hundred, and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blaskenwell	tithing	Bartholomew
BLASKENWELL	a tything	Imperial
Encombe	hamlet and seat	Bartholomew
KINGSTON	a village	Imperial
OWER	a tything	Imperial
REMPSTONE	a tything	Imperial
ROLLINGTON	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 Corfe Castle 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 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	2
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	1
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	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
Downshay	0	2
Haycroft	0	2
Kingston	0	2
Quar	0	2
Puddlemill	0	2
Church Knowle	0	3
Hasilor	0	2
Rowberrow	0	2
Worth Matravers	0	2
Eastington	0	2
Langton Matravers	0	2
Encombe	0	2
Renscombe	0	2
Weston	0	2
Arne	0	2
Studland	0	2
Swanage	1	2
Kimmeridge	0	2
Stoborough	0	2
Steeple	0	2