Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Stalbridge town and parish with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Gomershay tithing Bartholomew
GOMERSHAY a tything Imperial
Thornhill seat Bartholomew
THORNHILL a tything Imperial
Weston hamlet Bartholomew
WESTON 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 Stalbridge 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.
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset 2
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 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
Brownshall 0 2
Blackmoor Vale 0 2
Henstridge 0 2
Stourton Caundle 0 3
Stock Gaylard 0 2
Purse Caundle 0 2
Lydlinch 0 2
Sturminster Newton 5 4
Hinton St Mary 0 2
Marnhull 1 2
Fifehead Magdalen 0 2
Kington Magna 0 2
Abbas Combe 0 2
Bishops Caundle 0 3
Goathill 0 2
Caundle Marsh 0 2
West Stour 0 2
Fifehead Neville 0 2
Redland 0 2
Haydon 0 2