Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SHAFTESBURY	a town, three parishes, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
SHASTON (East and West)	a division	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 Shaftesbury 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	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	2
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	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
Cann	0	3
Alcester	0	2
Motcombe	0	2
Melbury Abbas	0	2
Donhead St Mary	0	2
Compton Abbas	0	3
Semley	0	2
Fontmell Magna	0	2
Sedgehill	0	2
Margaret Marsh	0	2
Stour Provost	0	2
East Stour	0	3
Donhead	0	1
East Orchard	0	2
Donhead St Andrew	0	2
Todber	0	2
Redland	0	2
Sutton Waldron	0	2
Ashmore	0	2
West Orchard	0	2