Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Trowbridge	market town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Studley	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
STUDLEY	a chapelry	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 Trowbridge 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"	4
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	3
Henry Vincent	Apr. 29 to May 4: Trowbridge and London	3
Henry Vincent	Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes	2
Henry Vincent	Apr. 1: The Devizes Riot	2
Henry Vincent	Feb. 26 to 27: Bath and Frome	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
Studley	0	2
Staverton	0	2
Hilperton	0	2
Wingfield	0	2
North Bradley	0	4
West Ashton	0	3
Holt	2	2
Southwick	1	2
Bradford on Avon	33	4
Whaddon	0	2
Steeple Ashton	0	2
Westwood	0	2
Heywood	0	2
Semington	0	2
Great Hinton	0	2
Bradford Leigh	0	2
Iford	0	2
Great Chalfield	0	2
Farleigh Hungerford	2	2
Little Chalfield	0	2