Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Oakhampton		Bartholomew
OKEHAMPTON, or Oakhampton	a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRIGHTLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Brightley, hamlet	hamlet	Bartholomew
Cheesacott	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHEESACOTT	a hamlet	Imperial
Fartherford	hamlet	Bartholomew
FARTHERFORD	a hamlet	Imperial
KIGBEAR	a hamlet	Imperial
Kigbeare	hamlet	Bartholomew
Maddaford	hamlet	Bartholomew
MADDAFORD	a hamlet	Imperial
Meldon	hamlet	Bartholomew
MELDON	a hamlet	Imperial
SOUTHACOTT	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 Okehampton 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 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	2
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	1
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lands End to Winchester	1
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	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
Belstone	0	2
Inwardleigh	0	2
Sticklepath	0	2
Sampford Courtenay	0	2
Jacobstowe	0	2
South Zeal	0	2
Exbourne	0	2
South Tawton	0	2
Sourton	0	2
Ashbury	0	2
Honeychurch	0	2
Hatherleigh	0	2
Throwleigh	0	2
Gidleigh	0	2
Ash	0	2
Millaton	0	2
Monk Okehampton	0	2
Northlew	0	4
North Tawton	0	4
Broadwood Kelly	0	2