Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DORCHESTER	a town, three parishes, a sub-district, a district, and a division	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 Dorchester 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 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	9
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	7
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	2
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	1
Thomas Pennant	Towcester to Redborn	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
West Fordington	0	1
Fordington	0	2
Winterborne Faringdon	0	1
George	0	2
Winterborne Herringston	0	2
Winterborne Monkton	0	2
Winterborne Came	0	2
Stinsford	0	2
West Stafford	0	2
Kingston	0	3
Whitcombe	0	2
Bradford Peverell	0	2
Charminster	0	2
Winterborne St Martin	0	3
Broadmayne	0	2
West Knighton	0	2
Bincombe	0	2
Culliford Tree	0	2
Wabyhouse	0	2
Upwey	0	3