Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cannington hundred Bartholomew
Cannington parish, township, and village Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Edstock and Beer township Bartholomew
EDSTOCK AND BEER a hamlet 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 Cannington 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 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
Stockland Bristol 0 2
Beere 0 1
Combwich 0 2
Edstock 0 2
Charlynch 0 2
Wembdon 0 2
Fiddington 0 2
Durleigh 0 2
Pawlett 0 2
Chilton Trinity 0 2
Enmore 0 2
Spaxton 0 2
Nether Stowey 0 2
Bridgwater 16 2
Stogursey 1 3
Otterhampton 0 2
Goathurst 0 2
Eastover 0 2
Stowey 0 1
Puriton 0 2