Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wiveliscombe	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Crowford	hamlet	Bartholomew
Ford	hamlet	Bartholomew
Langley	hamlet	Bartholomew
LANGLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
NUNNINGTON	a tything	Imperial
OAKHAMPTON	a tything	Imperial
WHITEFIELD (East and West)	two tythings	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 Wiveliscombe 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
Bathealton	0	2
Fitzhead	0	2
Milverton	0	3
Chipstable	0	2
Brompton Ralph	0	2
Tolland	0	2
Kittisford	0	2
Clatworthy	0	2
Langford Budville	0	2
Halse	0	2
Raddington	0	2
Huish Champflower	0	2
Lydeard St Lawrence	0	2
Stawley	0	2
Elworthy	0	2
Ashbrittle	0	2
Ash Priors	0	2
Runnington	0	2
Nynehead	0	2
Clayhanger	0	2