Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Camel, West parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
DOWNHEAD a hamlet Imperial
Sterthill hamlet Bartholomew
STERTHILL a hamlet Imperial
Urgashay hamlet Bartholomew
URGASHAY a hamlet 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 West Camel 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 Camden Dorset and Somerset 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
Queen Camel 2 3
Yeovilton 0 2
Podimore 0 2
Chilton Cantelo 0 2
Ashington 0 2
Marston Magna 0 2
Babcary 0 2
Sparkford 0 2
Weston Bampfylde 0 2
South Barrow 0 2
Limington 0 2
Charlton Mackrell 0 2
Northover 0 2
Catsash 0 2
Sutton Montis 0 2
Rimpton 0 2
Mudford 0 2
Charlton Adam 0 2
North Barrow 0 2
Kingsdon 0 2