Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRIDGEWATER, or Bridgwater	a town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Eastover	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Hamp	hamlet	Bartholomew
Haygrove	hamlet	Bartholomew
HAYGROVE	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 Bridgwater 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 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	8
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth	2
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	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
Eastover	0	2
Chilton Trinity	0	2
Wembdon	0	2
Huntworth	0	2
Durleigh	0	2
Chedzoy	0	2
Bawdrip	0	2
Goathurst	0	2
North Petherton	1	4
Andersfield	0	2
Puriton	0	2
Pennypound	0	2
Cannington	1	3
Northmoor Green	0	3
Westonzoyland	0	2
North Newton	0	2
Pawlett	0	2
Stockland Bristol	0	2
Enmore	0	2
Woolavington	0	2