Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Swindon	market town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Eastcott	tithing	Bartholomew
EASTCOTT	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 Swindon 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	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	7
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	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
New Swindon	0	1
Even Swindon	0	2
Upper Stratton	0	2
Stratton St Margaret	0	2
Rodbourne Cheney	0	3
Haydon	0	2
Wroughton	0	2
South Marston	0	2
Kingsbridge	0	2
Stanton Fitzwarren	0	2
Badbury	0	2
Chiseldon	0	3
Blunsdon St Andrew	0	3
Broad Blunsdon	0	2
Lydiard Tregoze	1	2
Wanborough	0	2
Liddington	0	2
Lydiard Millicent	0	3
Draycot Foliat	0	2
Bourton	0	2