Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bradford	hundred	Bartholomew
BRADFORD	a town, a parish, two subdistricts, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Bradford on Avon	hundred	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HOLT	a chapelry	Imperial
Leigh	village	Bartholomew
LEIGH	a village and a tything	Imperial
Limpley Stoke	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Winsley	village	Bartholomew
Winsley with Limpley Stoke	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Woolley	hamlet	Bartholomew
Wraxhall, South	ecclesiastical district and village	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 Bradford on Avon 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.
Henry Vincent	Apr. 1 to 7: Aftermath of the "fracas"	5
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	4
Henry Vincent	Apr. 29 to May 4: Trowbridge and London	4
William Cobbett	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	3
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	3
Henry Vincent	Apr. 1: The Devizes Riot	3
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	2
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	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
Bradford Leigh	0	2
Westwood	0	2
Winsley	0	2
Holt	2	2
Staverton	0	2
Iford	0	2
South Wraxall	0	1
Little Chalfield	0	2
Wingfield	0	2
Great Chalfield	0	2
Trowbridge	18	2
Monkton Farleigh	0	2
Farleigh Hungerford	2	2
Studley	0	2
Freshford	5	2
Hilperton	0	2
Limpley Stoke	0	2
Cottles	0	1
Atworth	0	2
Whaddon	0	2