Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Banbury	hundred	Bartholomew
BANBURY	a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Banbury (or Northern) Division		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Calthorpe	hamlet	Bartholomew
CALTHORPE	a hamlet	Imperial
Easington	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hardwick	hamlet	Bartholomew
HARDWICK	a hamlet	Imperial
Neithrop	township	Bartholomew
NEITHROP	a township	Imperial
South Banbury	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Wickham	hamlet	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 Banbury 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.
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	6
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	2
Celia Fiennes	Berkshire and Oxfordshire	2
Robert Gammage	Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire	2
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	2
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	1
William Camden	Rest of Wales	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	1
Thomas Pennant	Coventry	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
Neithrop	0	2
Grimsbury	0	2
Bodicote	0	2
Drayton	0	2
Warkworth	0	2
Hanwell	1	2
Broughton	11	2
North Newington	0	3
Bourton	0	3
Chalcombe	0	3
Middleton Cheney	1	2
Wroxton	1	2
Adderbury	0	2
Bloxham	1	2
Williamscot	0	2
Milton	0	2
Shottswell	0	3
Horley	0	2
Wardington	1	2
Kings Sutton	1	3