Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DARTMOUTH	a town, three parishes, and a sub-district	Imperial
DARTMOUTH AND TORBAY RAILWAY	a railway	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 Dartmouth 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	4
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	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
Townstall	0	1
Stoke Fleming	1	2
Dittisham	0	2
Kingswear	0	2
Lower Brixham	0	1
Brixham	0	2
Strete	0	1
Churston Ferrers	0	2
Cornworthy	0	2
Blackawton	0	2
Galmpton	0	2
Stoke Gabriel	0	2
Slapton	0	2
Coleridge	0	2
Ashprington	0	2
Halwell	0	2
Collaton	0	1
Paignton	0	2
East Allington	0	2
Harbertonford	0	2