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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Bridport. You may be able to find further references to Bridport in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | BRIDPORT | a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a division | Imperial | BRIDPORT RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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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 Bridport 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 2: Salisbury and Dorset | 3 | William Camden | Dorset and Somerset | 2 | Charles Wesley | May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall | 1 |
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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:
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Bothenhampton | 0 | 2 |
Godderthorne | 0 | 2 |
Allington | 0 | 2 |
Bradpole | 0 | 2 |
Walditch | 0 | 2 |
Symondsbury | 0 | 2 |
Loders | 0 | 2 |
Shipton George | 0 | 3 |
Burton Bradstock | 0 | 2 |
Chideock | 0 | 2 |
Netherbury | 0 | 2 |
West Milton | 0 | 2 |
Melplash | 0 | 2 |
Chilcombe | 0 | 3 |
Berwick | 0 | 2 |
Stanton St Gabriel | 0 | 2 |
Swyre | 0 | 2 |
Powerstock | 0 | 3 |
Askerswell | 0 | 2 |
Stoke Abbott | 0 | 2 |