Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Yarmouth	seaport	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 Yarmouth 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.
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	4
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	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
Thorley	0	2
Wellow	0	1
Freshwater	1	3
Norton	0	2
Afton	0	2
Shalfleet	0	2
Ningwood	0	1
Colwell	0	2
Newbridge	0	2
Brook	0	2
Hulverstone	0	2
Hurst Castle	0	2
Totland	0	2
Mottistone	0	2
Newtown	0	2
Calbourne	0	1
Keyhaven	0	2
Swainston	0	2
Pennington	0	2
Brixton	0	2