Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
NORTHLEACH a small town, a parish, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Eastington township 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 Northleach 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.
Edwin Russell Sept. 28 to Oct. 2: Great Risington to Winchcombe 2
Edwin Russell Oct. 3 to 9: Northleach, then to Herefordshire 2
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 1
William Cobbett Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere 1
William Gilpin London to Ross 1
Edwin Russell Sept. 13 to 17: Moreton in Marsh, Northleach and Fairford 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 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
Eastington 0 2
Farmington 0 2
Stowell 0 2
Hampnett 0 2
Coln St Dennis 0 2
Cotswold 8 3
Yanworth 0 2
Turkdean 0 2
Aldsworth 0 2
Sherborne 1 2
Bibury 0 2
Haselton 0 4
Bradley 0 2
Clapton 0 2
Coln Rogers 0 2
Winson 1 2
Windrush 3 4
Compton Abdale 0 2
Coln St Aldwyns 0 2
Chedworth 3 2