Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dowdeswell	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ANDOVERFORD	a village	Imperial
Andoversford	village with railway station	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 Dowdeswell 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	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	3

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
Whittington	0	2
Andoversford	0	1
Charlton Kings	0	2
Shipton Sollars	0	1
Hambrook	0	2
Withington	2	2
Shipton	0	3
Coberley	1	3
Sevenhampton	0	2
Prestbury	0	2
Leckhampton	1	2
Charlton Abbots	0	2
Colesbourne	1	2
Pittville	0	1
Compton Abdale	0	2
Cowley	0	2
Cheltenham	31	3
Elkstone	0	2
Rapsgate	0	2
Southam	0	2