Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NEWBURY	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Newbury (or Southern) Division, The	parlimentary division	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 Newbury 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	14
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	5
William Cobbett	Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	3
William Gilpin	Bristol to London	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	2
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	2
William Cobbett	Aug. 28th to 30th, 1826: Down the valley of the Avon in Wiltshire	2
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey	2
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	2
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	2
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 2: Hay and Brecheinia	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst	1
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	1
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
Charles Wesley	Nov. 29 - Dec. 6,1753: London and Bristol	1
Celia Fiennes	Marlborough	1
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	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
Speenhamland	0	2
Sandleford	0	2
Shaw	2	2
Greenham	0	2
Donnington	1	1
Enborne	0	4
Newtown	0	3
Speen	5	2
Stockcross	0	3
Cold Ash	0	2
Faircross	0	2
Thatcham	0	2
Hampstead Marshall	2	1
Woolton Hill	0	3
Highclere	12	2
Winterbourne	0	2
Boxford	0	2
Burghclere	24	2
East Woodhay	1	2
Chieveley	0	3