Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Pewsey small market town with railway station 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 Pewsey 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.
William Cobbett Aug. 28th to 30th, 1826: Down the valley of the Avon in Wiltshire 3

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
Elstub and Everleigh 0 2
Manningford Abbots 0 2
Milton Lilbourne 6 3
Kennet 2 2
Manningford Bruce 0 2
Oare 0 2
Manningford Bohune 0 2
Wilcot 0 2
North Newnton 0 2
Easton Royal 2 3
Wootton Rivers 1 2
Huish 0 3
Hilcott 0 2
Alton Priors 1 2
Woodborough 0 2
Everleigh 2 2
Overton Heath 0 2
Upavon 1 3
Alton Barnes 0 2
Clatford Park 0 2