Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wiley	river	Bartholomew
WILEY	a r station	Imperial
WILEY (The)	a river	Imperial
Wylye (or Wily)	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DEPTFORD	a tything	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 Wylye 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. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	4
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	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
Deptford	0	1
Fisherton de la Mare	0	2
Steeple Langford	6	3
Codford	0	4
Yarnbury	0	2
Stockton	0	2
Little Langford	1	2
Teffont Magna	0	2
Branch and Dole	0	2
Codford St Peter	0	2
Dinton	0	2
Sherrington	0	2
Baverstock	0	2
Maddington	0	2
Berwick St James	1	2
Groveley Wood	0	2
Chilmark	0	2
Upton Lovell	0	2
Chitterne	0	4
Great Wishford	2	2