Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Highclere	parish	Bartholomew

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 Highclere 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 Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	5
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	2
William Cobbett	Dec. 10th to 24th, 1821: Norfolk and Suffolk Journal	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 28th to 30th, 1826: Down the valley of the Avon in Wiltshire	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst	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
Burghclere	24	2
Woolton Hill	0	3
East Woodhay	1	2
Newtown	0	3
Crux Easton	1	2
Evingar	0	2
Sydmonton	1	2
Ashmansworth	9	2
Woodcott	2	2
Sandleford	0	2
Enborne	0	4
Ecchinswell	0	3
Litchfield	1	2
Faccombe	0	2
West Woodhay	2	2
Newbury	52	3
Greenham	0	2
Hampstead Marshall	2	1
Combe	1	2
Speenhamland	0	2