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 Glastonbury. You may be able to find further references to Glastonbury in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | GLASTONBURY | a town, a parish, and a sub-district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Glastonbury.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Edgarly | seat | Bartholomew | EDGARLY | a tything | Imperial | Havett | hamlet | Bartholomew | HAVETT | a hamlet | Imperial | NORWOOD-PARK | a hamlet | Imperial | Week | hamlet | Bartholomew | WEEK | a hamlet | 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 Glastonbury 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 | 8 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire | 6 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth | 2 | Thomas Pennant | Gorhambury and Verulamium | 2 | George Borrow | Wrexham and Llangollen | 1 | William Camden | The Division of Britaine | 1 | William Camden | Ireland (2) | 1 | William Cobbett | Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland | 1 | John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Glaston Twelve Hides | 0 | 2 |
| Street | 0 | 2 |
| West Pennard | 0 | 3 |
| North Wootton | 0 | 3 |
| Castle | 0 | 2 |
| Butleigh | 0 | 2 |
| Coxley | 0 | 2 |
| Godney | 2 | 2 |
| Baltonsborough | 0 | 2 |
| Walton | 0 | 2 |
| Meare | 0 | 2 |
| Henton | 0 | 2 |
| Wookey | 3 | 2 |
| Barton St David | 0 | 2 |
| Compton Dundon | 0 | 2 |
| West Bradley | 0 | 2 |
| Wells | 20 | 4 |
| Ashcott | 0 | 2 |
| Westhay | 0 | 2 |
| Pilton | 0 | 2 |
