Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wick and Abson	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Abson	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Holbrook	hamlet	Bartholomew
Tog Hill		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 Wick 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	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	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
Abson	0	2
Doynton	0	2
Bridge Yate	0	2
Siston	1	2
Bitton	0	2
Warmley	0	2
Pucklechurch	2	3
Cold Ashton	0	3
North Stoke	0	2
Dryham	0	3
Oldland	0	2
Langridge	0	2
Kingswood By Bitton	0	2
Hanham	0	2
Down End	0	3
Mangotsfield	0	2
Saltford	0	2
Kelston	0	3
Charlcombe	0	2
Two Mile Hill	0	2