A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Witney. You may be able to find further references to Witney in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | WITNEY | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Witney.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Crawley | township and hamlet | Bartholomew | CRAWLEY | a hamlet | Imperial | Curbridge | township and hamlet | Bartholomew | CURBRIDGE | a hamlet | Imperial | Hailey | township and village | Bartholomew | HAILEY | a township and a chapelry | Imperial | Poffley End | hamlet | Bartholomew |
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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 Witney 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 | Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire | 1 | William Cobbett | Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere | 1 | William Cobbett | Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere | 1 | William Gilpin | London to Ross | 1 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 1 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cogges | 3 | 2 |
| Curbridge | 0 | 2 |
| Ducklington | 0 | 2 |
| Hailey | 0 | 2 |
| Osney Hill | 0 | 1 |
| Crawley | 0 | 2 |
| Minster Lovell | 1 | 2 |
| South Leigh | 4 | 4 |
| Lew | 0 | 2 |
| Hardwick | 0 | 1 |
| Yelford | 0 | 2 |
| Ramsden | 0 | 2 |
| Wilcote | 0 | 2 |
| North Leigh | 0 | 3 |
| Asthall | 0 | 2 |
| Brize Norton | 0 | 2 |
| Eynsham | 3 | 3 |
| Leafield | 0 | 2 |
| Freeland | 0 | 2 |
| Finstock | 0 | 2 |