Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Wiscombe like this:

Wiscombe Park, seat, Devon, 3 m. W. of Colyton.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Wiscombe by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Southleigh 0 3
Farway 0 2
Northleigh 0 2
Branscombe 0 2
Colyton 1 3
Sidbury 0 2
Beer 0 2
Salcombe Regis 0 2
Sidmouth 1 4
Offwell 0 2
Sidford 0 2
Seaton 5 3
Widworthy 0 2
Honiton 12 3
Colyford 0 2
Gittisham 0 2
Wilmington 0 2
Shute 0 2
Whitford 0 2
Dalwood 0 2