Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Castle Cary	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Clanville	hamlet	Bartholomew
CLANVILLE	a hamlet	Imperial
Cockhill	hamlet	Bartholomew
DIMMER	a hamlet	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 Castle Cary 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 Camden	Dorset and Somerset	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	2
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	1
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	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
Alford	1	2
Ansford	0	3
North Barrow	0	2
North Cadbury	2	3
Catsash	0	2
Lovington	0	2
Pitcombe	0	2
Yarlington	0	2
South Barrow	0	2
Wheathill	0	2
Ditcheat	0	2
Hornblotton	0	2
Wyke Champflower	0	2
Sparkford	0	2
Lamyat	0	2
East Lydford	0	2
Compton Pauncefoot	0	3
Bratton Seymour	0	2
South Cadbury	1	2
Blackford	0	2