Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burford	parish, township, and town	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SIGNETT	a hamlet	Imperial
UPTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Upton and Signet	township	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 Burford 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 Gilpin	London to Ross	3
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	2
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	2
William Cobbett	Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	1
Edwin Russell	Sept. 28 to Oct. 2: Great Risington to Winchcombe	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
Signet	0	2
Upton	0	3
Fulbrook	0	2
Shilton	0	2
Widford	0	2
Stonelands	0	2
Westwell	0	2
Taynton	0	2
Holwell	0	2
Little Barrington	1	2
Swinbrook	0	2
Great Barrington	1	3
Asthall	0	2
Broadwell	0	3
Kencot	0	2
Milton under Wychwood	0	2
Filkins	0	2
Brize Norton	0	2
Windrush	3	4
Alvescot	0	2