Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Whitchurch 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 Whitchurch.

Place Type of entry Source
Charlcott tithing Bartholomew
CHARLCOTT a tything Imperial
Cold Henley tithing Bartholomew
COLD-HENLEY a tything Imperial
Freefolk Priors hamlet Bartholomew
FREEFOLK PRIORS 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 Whitchurch 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 Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere 6
William Cobbett Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex 3
William Cobbett Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester 1
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 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
Laverstoke 0 2
Hurstbourne Priors 1 2
Southington 0 2
Freefolk Manor 0 2
Tufton 0 3
Litchfield 1 2
Overton 0 3
Quidhampton 0 1
St Mary Bourne 0 2
Woodcott 2 2
Evingar 0 2
Longparish 1 3
Ashe 0 2
Crux Easton 1 2
Bullington 2 2
Steventon 0 2
Hunton 0 2
Sydmonton 1 2
Smannell 0 2
Deane 0 2