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 Marlborough. You may be able to find further references to Marlborough in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | MARLBOROUGH | a town, two parishes, and a district | 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 Marlborough 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. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire | 6 | William Camden | Wiltshire and Hampshire | 4 | William Gilpin | Bristol to London | 4 | William Cobbett | Aug. 28th to 30th, 1826: Down the valley of the Avon in Wiltshire | 3 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London | 3 | William Cobbett | Aug. 24th to 28th, 1826: Burghclere to Petersfield | 2 | Celia Fiennes | Marlborough | 2 | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands | 2 | William Cobbett | Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester | 1 | William Cobbett | Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex | 1 | William Cobbett | Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere | 1 | Charles Wesley | 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Wiltshire and Dorset | 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 |
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| St Margaret | 0 | 2 |
| Furze Cope | 0 | 2 |
| Clatford | 0 | 2 |
| Preshute | 1 | 2 |
| Mildenhall | 0 | 2 |
| Overton Heath | 0 | 2 |
| Clatford Park | 0 | 2 |
| Fyfield | 0 | 2 |
| Lockeridge | 0 | 1 |
| Savernake | 1 | 6 |
| Ogbourne St Andrew | 0 | 2 |
| West Overton | 1 | 5 |
| Leigh Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Selkley | 0 | 2 |
| Wootton Rivers | 1 | 2 |
| Huish | 0 | 3 |
| Ogbourne St George | 2 | 3 |
| Oare | 0 | 2 |
| East Kennett | 0 | 2 |
| Wilcot | 0 | 2 |