Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Faringdon	hundred	Bartholomew
FARINGDON	a town, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
FARINGDON (Great)	a parish	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Coxwell, Little	township	Bartholomew
COXWELL (Little)	a township-chapelry	Imperial
HOSPITAL	a tything	Imperial
Littleworth	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
LITTLEWORTH	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Thrupp	hamlet	Bartholomew
THRUPP	a hamlet	Imperial
WADLEY	a tything	Imperial
Wadley House	seat	Bartholomew

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 Faringdon 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 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	2
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	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
Littleworth	0	2
Radcot	1	2
Eaton Hastings	0	2
Great Coxwell	0	2
Little Coxwell	0	3
Shellingford	0	2
Grafton	0	2
Kelmscot	0	2
Clanfield	0	2
Hatford	0	2
Buckland	0	2
Fernham	0	2
Coleshill	9	2
Longcott	0	2
Buscot	0	2
Ganfield	0	2
Stanford in the Vale	0	2
Baulking	0	2
Langford	0	2
Pusey	1	2