Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bere Regis hundred Bartholomew
Bere Regis parish and ancient town Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Milborne Stileham township Bartholomew
MILBORNE-STILEHAM 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 Bere Regis 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
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire 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
Bloxworth 0 2
Turners Puddle 0 2
Winterborne Kingston 0 2
Hundredsbarrow 0 2
Milborne Stileham 0 2
Affpuddle 0 2
Anderson 0 2
Winterborne Tomson 0 2
Winterborne Whitechurch 0 2
Winterborne Zelston 0 2
Tolpuddle 0 2
Milborne St Andrew 2 2
Rushmore 0 2
Loosebarrow 0 2
Morden 0 2
Almer 0 2
Coombs Ditch 0 2
Burleston 0 2
Wool 0 2
Winfrith 0 2