Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Allhallows parish Bartholomew
WALLINGFORD a town, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
WALLINGFORD CASTLE an extra-parochial precinct Imperial
Wallingford Castle Precincts parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
CLAPCOT a liberty 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 Wallingford 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 Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 12
William Camden Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland 6
William Camden Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 3
William Camden Saxons, Danes and Normans 2
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 2
William Gilpin London to Ross 2
Paul Hentzner A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor 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
Clapcot 0 2
Sotwell 0 2
Crowmarsh 1 2
Brightwell 1 2
Benson 3 2
Shillingford 0 2
North Stoke 0 3
Cholsey 3 2
South Moreton 0 3
Moreton 0 2
Warborough 0 2
North Moreton 0 2
Berrick Salome 0 2
Little Wittenham 0 2
Newnham Murren 0 2
Ewelme 3 3
Mongewell 0 2
Dorchester 16 3
Aston Tirrold 0 2
Ipsden 0 2