A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Great Bedwyn. You may be able to find further references to Great Bedwyn in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Bedwin, or Bedwyn, Great | parish and town with railway station | Bartholomew | Great Bedwyn | parish and town with railway station | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Great Bedwyn.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Crofton | hamlet | Bartholomew | CROFTON AND WOLFHALL | a tything | Imperial | Grafton, East | ecclesiastical district and hamlet | Bartholomew | GRAFTON (East) | a tything and a chapelry | Imperial | GRAFTON (West) | a tything | Imperial | MARTIN | a tything | Imperial | SAVERNAKE FOREST | chapelry and an ancient forest | Imperial | WEXCOMBE | a tything | Imperial | WILTON | a tything | Imperial | WOLFHALL | a tything | Imperial |
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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 Great Bedwyn 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. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester | 1 | William Cobbett | Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere | 1 | William Cobbett | July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset | 1 |
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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 |
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| Kinwardstone | 0 | 2 |
| Grafton | 0 | 3 |
| Burbage | 0 | 2 |
| Little Bedwyn | 0 | 3 |
| Shalbourne | 1 | 1 |
| Leigh Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Easton Royal | 2 | 3 |
| Savernake | 1 | 6 |
| Tidcombe | 0 | 2 |
| Froxfield | 1 | 2 |
| Ham | 0 | 2 |
| Wootton Rivers | 1 | 2 |
| Fosbury | 0 | 2 |
| Collingbourne Kingston | 0 | 2 |
| Hippenscombe | 0 | 2 |
| Buttermere | 0 | 2 |
| Milton Lilbourne | 6 | 3 |
| Collingbourne | 0 | 1 |
| Furze Cope | 0 | 2 |
| Chute | 0 | 4 |