Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wootton Bassett	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Greenhill	tithing	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 Wootton Bassett 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	Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London	5
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	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
Tockenham	0	2
Lydiard Tregoze	1	2
Broad Town	0	2
Lydiard Millicent	0	3
Clyffe Pypard	0	2
Brinkworth	0	2
Lyneham	0	3
Kingsbridge	0	2
Dauntsey	3	2
Braydon	0	2
Purton	0	2
Broad Hinton	0	3
Clack	0	2
Hilmarton	0	2
Bradenstoke	0	2
Wroughton	0	2
Highway	0	2
Winterbourne Bassett	0	2
Even Swindon	0	2
Charlton	0	1