Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BATH	a city and a district	Imperial
BATH and WELLS	a diocese	Imperial
Bath Forum	hundred	Bartholomew
BATH-FORUM	a hundred	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 Bath 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	Dorset and Somerset	16
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	6
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	6
Henry Vincent	Feb. 26 to 27: Bath and Frome	6
Henry Vincent	Apr. 8 to 13: Bath	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District	5
William Gilpin	Bristol to London	5
Henry Vincent	Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud	5
Henry Vincent	Apr. 1 to 7: Aftermath of the "fracas"	5
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	4
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol	4
Charles Wesley	Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again	3
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	3
Celia Fiennes	Bath via Warminster	3
Henry Vincent	Feb. 28 to Mar. 9: Bristol, Cirencester and Stroud	3
Henry Vincent	Apr. 29 to May 4: Trowbridge and London	3
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	3
Charles Wesley	Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 2 - Feb. 27, 1743: Bristol and Bath	2
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	2
Charles Wesley	Nov. 29 - Dec. 6,1753: London and Bristol	2
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	2
Henry Vincent	Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes	2
Henry Vincent	Apr. 1: The Devizes Riot	2
John Byng	A Tour of Bedfordshire in 1794: May	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	1
William Cobbett	Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	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	Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	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	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth	1
Robert Gammage	Eight months in Sherborne	1
Robert Gammage	Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections	1
George Head	The Peak District	1
John Wesley	1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs	1
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford	1
Henry Vincent	Apr. 15 to 20: Bristol and Newport	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
Holloway	0	2
Lyncombe	0	2
Widcombe	0	1
Bathwick	0	2
Twerton	2	3
Walcot	0	2
Combe Down	0	2
Hampton and Claverton	0	2
Monkton Combe	0	3
South Stoke	0	2
Bathampton	0	2
Weston	0	2
Claverton	0	3
English Combe	0	3
Charlcombe	0	2
Newton St Loe	0	3
Woolley	0	2
Midford	0	2
Combe Hay	0	2
Limpley Stoke	0	2