Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Warminster	hundred	Bartholomew
WARMINSTER	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	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 Warminster 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	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	10
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	5
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	4
William Cobbett	Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury	1
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	1
Celia Fiennes	Bath via Warminster	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
Boreham	0	2
Upton Scudamore	0	2
Bishopstrow	1	2
Pitmead	0	1
Norton Bavant	1	2
Dilton	0	2
Westbury Leigh	0	3
Corsley	0	2
Longbridge Deverill	1	2
Westbury	4	3
Sutton Veny	0	2
Chapmanslade	0	2
Dilton Marsh	0	2
Heytesbury	10	4
Tytherington	0	2
Bratton	3	2
Hill Deverill	0	2
Horningsham	0	2
Longleat	0	2
Standerwick	0	2