Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ABINGDON	a town, two parishes, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial
Abingdon (or Northern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barton Farm	tract of land	Bartholomew
Cholsall	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHOLSALL	a hamlet	Imperial
NORTHCOTT, or Northcourt	a hamlet	Imperial
SANDFORD	a township	Imperial
Shippon	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
SHIPPON	a township-chapelry	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 Abingdon 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	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	10
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	3
William Cobbett	Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere	2
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	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
Northcourt	0	1
Shippon	0	2
Sutton Wick	0	2
Culham	0	2
Sunningwell	1	2
Radley	0	2
Sutton Courtenay	0	2
Drayton	0	2
Dry Sandford	0	2
Chandlings Farm	0	1
Wootton	0	2
Marcham	0	2
Hormer	0	2
Bagley Wood	0	2
Nuneham Courtenay	4	2
Ock	0	2
Besselsleigh	2	2
Appleford	0	2
Clifton Hampden	0	2
Kennington	0	2