Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Great Rollright	parish and village	Bartholomew
Rollright, Great	parish	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 Great Rollright 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 Birmingham to Suffolk	2
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	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
Over Norton	0	2
Little Rollright	0	2
Whichford	0	2
Long Compton	1	3
Hook Norton	4	2
Swerford	0	2
Salford	0	2
Chipping Norton	1	2
Stourton	0	2
Heythrop	0	2
Little Tew	0	3
Sutton under Brailes	0	2
Little Compton	0	2
Cornwell	0	2
Cherington	0	2
Barton on the Heath	0	2
Wigginton	0	2
Sibford Ferris	0	1
Great Wolford	0	2
Sibford Gower	0	2