Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bishops Waltham	hundred	Bartholomew
BISHOPS-WALTHAM	a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a hundred	Imperial
Waltham, Bishops		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ASHTON	a tything	Imperial
CURDRIDGE	a tything-chapelry	Imperial
Dean	hamlet	Bartholomew
DEAN	a hamlet	Imperial
DUNDRIDGE	a hamlet	Imperial
Hoe, West	tithing	Bartholomew
HOE (WEST)	a tything	Imperial
SWANMORE	a tything	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 Bishops Waltham 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 Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	2
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	1
William Cobbett	Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield	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
Droxford	1	2
Upham	4	2
Durley	7	2
Swanmore	0	3
Shedfield	0	3
Corhampton	1	2
Curdridge	0	2
Fair Oak	0	2
Owslebury	1	2
Shamblehurst	0	1
Exton	4	2
Botley	24	2
Bishopstoke	0	2
Soberton	5	2
Wickham	1	3
Beauworth	3	2
Newtown	0	2
Hedge End	0	1
Meonstoke	3	4
Colden Common	0	1