History of Bath in Bath and North East Somerset

Place:

Bath Somerset

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Bath. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
BATH	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BATH	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BATH AND WELLS	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BATH FORUM	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BATH FORUM	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Bath. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
00HA	District/Unitary Authority (UA)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
BATH	1841 Occupation reporting area	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'.
	Ancient District (AD_City/Borough)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 670.
	Archdeaconry	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 775.
	Constituency (BCon/PBCon/BCon/CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Local Government District (MB/CB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 673.
	Local Government District (RD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 673.
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 671.
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 775.
	Sanitary District (USD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 674.
	Sanitary District (RSD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 674.
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
BATH ABBEY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ABBEY WITH ST JAMES	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET	District/Unitary Authority (UA)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
BATH AND WELLS	Diocese	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 775.
BATHAVON	Local Government District (RD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 673.
BATH FOREIGN	Ancient District (Hundred)	Robin Glasscock, The Lay Subsidy of 1334 (London: British Academy, 1975)
BATH FORUM	Ancient District (Hundred)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 668.
BATH HOLY TRINITY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH LYNCOMBE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST BARNABAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST BARTHOLOMEW	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST JAMES	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP/EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST JAMES	Parish-level Unit (Ch/AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST LUKE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST MARY DE STALLS	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST MARY WITHIN THE WALLS	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST MARY WITHOUT THE WALLS	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST MICHAEL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST MICHAEL	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST MICHAEL WITHOUT THE WALLS	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST MICHAEL WITH ST PAUL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST MICHEAL WITHIN THE WALLS	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST PAUL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST PETER AND ST PAUL	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST SAVIOUR	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST STEPHEN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH ST WERBURGH	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
BATH THE ASCENSION	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
E320902	Local Government District (MB/CB)
E320925	Local Government District (RD)
FORINSECUS BATHON	Ancient District (Hundred)	Robin Glasscock, The Lay Subsidy of 1334 (London: British Academy, 1975)
JAMES ST	Parish-level Unit (Ch/AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
LANSDOWN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
LANSDOWN	Registration sub-District	Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office)
LYNCOMBE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
LYNCOMBE ST MARK	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Ecclesiastical parishes or districts - Families or separate occupiers, and population, 1911'.
MICHAEL ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
PETER AND PAUL ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
SOUTH LYNCOMBE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
SOUTH LYNCOMBE ST LUKE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Ecclesiastical parishes or districts - Families or separate occupiers, and population, 1911'.
SOUTH TWERTON	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
ST JAMES	Parish-level Unit (Ch/AP/CP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST MICHAEL	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST PETER AND ST PAUL	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
TWERTON HILL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.
WALCOT ST SAVIOUR	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 415.

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Bath, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Bath, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bath in Bath and North East Somerset | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1008/names

Date accessed: 05th November 2024