Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BARTHOLOMEW-HYDE (St.)		Imperial
FAITH (St.)	a parish	Imperial
WINCHESTER	a city, a district, and a division	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BISHOPS-SPARKFORD	a tything	Imperial
SPARKFORD (Bishops and West)	two tythings	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 Winchester 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 Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	17
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	10
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	9
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	8
William Cobbett	Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	6
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	5
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	4
William Cobbett	Sept. 25th to 29th, 1822: Kensington to Uphusband	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	4
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	3
William Cobbett	Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 23rd to 27th, 1825: Chilworth to Winchester	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	2
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	1
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal	1
William Cobbett	Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	1
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: York and Scarborough	1
Celia Fiennes	1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	1
Robert Gammage	Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	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
Wolvesey	0	1
Milland	0	2
St Cross	0	2
Weeke	0	2
Abbots Barton	0	1
Winnall	0	2
Chilcomb	0	2
Worthys	0	1
Compton	0	2
Abbotts Worthy	0	2
Littleton	0	2
Lainston	0	2
Easton	9	2
Headbourne Worthy	0	2
Twyford	0	2
Sparsholt	0	2
Kings Worthy	2	3
Morestead	0	2
Avington	7	2
Hursley	1	2