Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
OXFORD	a liberty	Imperial
OXFORD	a city and a university	Imperial
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
St Aldate	parish	Bartholomew
St Mary the Virgin	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Osney, New		Bartholomew
Summertown	ecclesiastical district	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 Oxford 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	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	36
Karl Moritz	Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford	23
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	18
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	11
Karl Moritz	Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire	9
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	8
William Cobbett	Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere	7
Charles Wesley	1738: Around London, and Oxfordshire	7
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	7
Henry Broadhurst	Blacksmith's Forge and Stonemason's Bench	6
Charles Wesley	Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London	6
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	5
Charles Wesley	Jan. 2 - Apr. 30, 1739: London and Oxford	5
Karl Moritz	Chapter 9: Richmond to Windsor	5
George Borrow	Upon Plynlimmon	4
William Camden	Northumberland	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon	4
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	4
Robert Gammage	Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire	4
William Gilpin	London to Ross	4
Paul Hentzner	A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor	4
Thomas Pennant	Part II: Daventry to Northampton	4
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	4
James Boswell	August 14th to 17th, 1773: In Edinburgh	3
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol	3
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	3
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	3
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	3
Thomas Pennant	Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches	3
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	3
George Borrow	Llandovery	2
James Boswell	August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen	2
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	2
James Boswell	September 25th to October 2nd, 1773: South east Skye	2
James Boswell	October 23rd to 26th, 1773: Inveraray	2
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	2
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	2
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	2
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	2
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 4 - Dec. 30, 1736: Massachusetts, and back to England	2
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	2
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire	2
Paul Hentzner	Arrival and London	2
John Wesley	1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs	2
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	2
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	2
Thomas Pennant	Tamworth to Meriden	2
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	2
George Borrow	Around Llangollen	1
George Borrow	Conversations in Llangollen	1
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (1)	1
James Boswell	Introduction	1
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	1
Henry Broadhurst	Introduction, by August Birrell, K.C.	1
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	1
Gerald of Wales	Introduction	1
William Camden	Ireland (3)	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	1
Charles Wesley	Mar. 9 - Aug. 30, 1736: Georgia	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	1
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Celia Fiennes	To Herefordshire	1
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	1
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	1
Celia Fiennes	Bedfordshire	1
Paul Hentzner	Westminster and Whitehall	1
John Wesley	1729-36: Wesley as a Missionary to Georgia	1
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
Karl Moritz	Introduction	1
Thomas Pennant	Nantwich	1
Thomas Pennant	Colwich to Beaudesert	1
Thomas Pennant	Coventry	1
Thomas Pennant	Towcester to Redborn	1
Thomas Pennant	Northampton to Gothurst	1
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	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
Holywell	0	1
St Clement	0	1
Marston	0	2
Osney	0	3
Medley	0	2
Summertown	0	2
Headington	1	2
South Hinksey	0	2
North Hinksey	0	2
Binsey	0	2
Headington Quarry	0	2
Cowley	3	2
Seacourt	0	2
Iffley	0	2
Elsfield	0	2
Wolvercott	0	3
Cutteslowe	0	2
Kennington	0	2
Littlemore	3	2
Godstow	0	2