Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kingswood	parish	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 Kingswood 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.
Charles Wesley	Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again	19
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	11
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	8
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol	6
Charles Wesley	Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales	5
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath	3
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	3
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	3
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	3
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	2
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	2
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	2
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	2
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	2
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	2
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 2 - Feb. 27, 1743: Bristol and Bath	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol	1
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	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
Charfield	0	2
Hillsley	0	2
Alderley	1	2
Wotton under Edge	1	2
Wickwar	1	2
Tortworth	1	2
Cromhall	0	2
North Nibley	0	3
Hawkesbury	0	2
Tresham	0	1
Ozleworth	0	2
Grumbalds Ash	0	2
Horton	0	2
Falfield	0	2
Yate	0	2
Alkington	0	2
Woodmancote	0	2
Stone	0	2
Dursley	3	2
Rangeworthy	0	2