Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Heytesbury	hundred	Bartholomew
Heytesbury	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Heytesbury cum Tytherington	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Coombe Castle	hamlet	Bartholomew
COOMBE-CASTLE	a hamlet	Imperial
LONDON (LITTLE)	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 Heytesbury 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	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	6
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	2
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	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
Knook	0	2
Upton Lovell	0	2
Norton Bavant	1	2
Tytherington	0	2
Pitmead	0	1
Corton	0	2
Bishopstrow	1	2
Codford St Peter	0	2
Boreham	0	2
Sutton Veny	0	2
Boyton	0	2
Codford	0	4
Warminster	26	3
Imber	0	2
Sherrington	0	2
Chitterne	0	4
Stockton	0	2
Longbridge Deverill	1	2
Fisherton de la Mare	0	2
Bratton	3	2