Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
FRESHWATER	a village and a parish	Imperial
Freshwater Bay	small bay	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Easton	hamlet	Bartholomew
EASTON	a tything	Imperial
MIDDLETON	a tything	Imperial
Norton	coastal village	Bartholomew
NORTON	a village and a tything	Imperial
Totland Bay	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WESTON	a tything	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 Freshwater 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	Wiltshire and Hampshire	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
Afton	0	2
Colwell	0	2
Norton	0	2
Yarmouth	11	2
Thorley	0	2
Totland	0	2
Hurst Castle	0	2
Wellow	0	1
Brook	0	2
Shalfleet	0	2
Ningwood	0	1
The Needles	1	2
Hulverstone	0	2
Keyhaven	0	2
Newbridge	0	2
Mottistone	0	2
Pennington	0	2
Milford on Sea	0	2
Efford	0	2
Calbourne	0	1