Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRISTOL	a city, with special jurisdiction	Imperial
BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
BRISTOL AND SOUTH WALES UNION RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
BRISTOL PORT AND PIER RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
Castle Precincts	parish	Bartholomew
Redcliff, St Mary	parish	Bartholomew

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 Bristol 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.
Charles Wesley	Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again	13
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	13
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	12
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	11
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	10
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	10
William Gilpin	Bristol to London	9
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	8
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	8
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	7
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol	6
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	6
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	6
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	6
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	5
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	5
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	5
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	5
Henry Vincent	Feb. 28 to Mar. 9: Bristol, Cirencester and Stroud	5
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath	4
Charles Wesley	May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland	4
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	4
Charles Wesley	Nov. 29 - Dec. 6,1753: London and Bristol	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	4
John Wesley	1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs	4
Henry Vincent	Apr. 15 to 20: Bristol and Newport	4
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol	3
Charles Wesley	Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales	3
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	3
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	3
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol	3
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	3
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	3
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	3
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	3
Henry Vincent	Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud	3
George Borrow	To Swansea	2
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	2
William Camden	Ireland (1)	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth	2
Robert Gammage	Election to the Chartist National Convention in 1852	2
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	2
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	2
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	2
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	2
Feargus O'Connor	O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839	2
Henry Vincent	Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes	2
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	1
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 4 - Dec. 30, 1736: Massachusetts, and back to England	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 2 - Apr. 30, 1739: London and Oxford	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 2 - Feb. 27, 1743: Bristol and Bath	1
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	1
Charles Wesley	July 8 - Aug. 13, 1754: Norfolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. MRS GRIFFITHS	1
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	1
Celia Fiennes	To Herefordshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: York and Scarborough	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Plymouth to Penzance	1
Robert Gammage	Touring South Wales	1
Robert Gammage	Standing for Parliament in Cheltenham, 1852	1
William Gilpin	Ross to Monmouth	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford	1
Thomas Pennant	Wybunbury to Darlaston	1
Henry Vincent	Apr. 22 to 27: the Welsh Valleys	1
Henry Vincent	Apr. 29 to May 4: Trowbridge and London	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	1
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	1
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk	1
Arthur Young	21st to 31st July 1776: Down, Armagh and Antrim	1
Arthur Young	1st to 10th September 1776: Galway, Clare, Limerick and Cork	1
Arthur Young	11th to 20th September 1776: Cork	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
Redland	0	1
Bishopston	0	2
Kingsdown	0	1
Tyndalls Park	0	1
Montpelier	0	1
Henleaze	0	1
Stoke Bishop	0	2
Clifton	0	2
Weir	0	2
Horfield	0	2
Westbury on Trym	0	2
Sea Mills	0	2
Easton	0	3
Leigh Woods	0	1
Lawrence Hill	0	1
Barton Hill	0	1
Bedminster	0	2
Bower Ashton	0	2
Moorfields	0	1
Abbots Leigh	0	2