Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cheltenham	hundred	Bartholomew
CHELTENHAM	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Arle	tithing	Bartholomew
NAUNTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Pittville	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
SANDFORD	a hamlet	Imperial
WESTALL	a hamlet	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 Cheltenham 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 Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	7
William Cobbett	Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere	5
Henry Vincent	Feb. 28 to Mar. 9: Bristol, Cirencester and Stroud	4
Robert Gammage	Standing for Parliament in Cheltenham, 1852	3
William Adams	On Tramp	2
William Gilpin	London to Ross	2
William Adams	Brantwood	1
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	1
Robert Gammage	Touring the Welsh border in 1852 and 1853	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
Henry Vincent	Mar. 10 to 16: Gloucester, Tewkesbury and Hereford	1
Henry Vincent	Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud	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
Pittville	0	1
Up Hatherley	0	2
Leckhampton	1	2
Swindon	0	2
Hambrook	0	2
Uckington	0	2
Shurdington	0	2
Prestbury	0	2
Charlton Kings	0	2
Staverton	0	2
Boddington	0	2
Badgeworth	0	2
Southam	0	2
Elmstone Hardwicke	0	2
Bishops Cleeve	0	5
Churchdown	1	2
Woodmancote	0	2
Coberley	1	3
Stoke Orchard	0	2
Dowdeswell	3	2