Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Maiden Newton parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
CRUXTON a hamlet Imperial
Notton hamlet Bartholomew
NOTTON 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 Maiden Newton 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.
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Exeter to London 1

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Frome Vauchurch 0 2
Toller Fratrum 0 2
Wynford Eagle 0 3
Frampton 1 3
Compton Valence 0 2
Chilfrome 0 2
Grimstone 0 2
Stratton 0 2
Sydling St Nicholas 0 2
Godmanstone 0 2
Cattistock 0 2
West Compton 0 1
Wraxall 0 2
Toller Porcorum 0 2
Eggerton 0 2
Winterbourne Abbas 0 2
Tollerford 0 2
Nether Cerne 0 2
Frome St Quintin 0 2
Bradford Peverell 0 2