Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Minchinhampton town and parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Amberley ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Box hamlet Bartholomew
BOX a hamlet Imperial
BRIMSCOMBE a hamlet Imperial
Burley hamlet Bartholomew
BURLEY a hamlet Imperial
Cowcombe hamlet Bartholomew
COWCOMBE a hamlet Imperial
Forwood hamlet Bartholomew
FORWOOD a hamlet Imperial
Holcombe hamlet Bartholomew
HOLCOMBE a hamlet Imperial
Hyde hamlet Bartholomew
HYDE a hamlet Imperial
Littleworth hamlet Bartholomew
Longford hamlet Bartholomew
LONGFORD a hamlet Imperial
St Cloe hamlet Bartholomew
Theescombe hamlet Bartholomew
THEESCOMBE 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 Minchinhampton 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 2: Somerset and Wiltshire 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
Gatcombe Park 0 1
Box 0 2
Brimscombe 0 2
Thrupp 0 1
Bussage 0 2
Avening 5 2
Chalford 0 2
Amberley 0 2
France Lynch 0 2
Longtree 0 2
Nailsworth 1 2
Rodborough 1 2
Shortwood 0 2
Lypiatt 0 2
Cherington 0 2
Oakridge 0 2
Frampton Mansell 0 2
Horsley 0 2
Woodchester 2 2
Stroud 29 3