Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Winchcomb	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew
WINCHCOMBE AND MIDLAND RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Abbey Demenses	hamlet	Bartholomew
ABBEY-DEMENSES	a hamlet	Imperial
Coates	hamlet	Bartholomew
COATES	a hamlet	Imperial
Cockbury	hamlet	Bartholomew
COCKBURY	a hamlet	Imperial
Corndean	hamlet	Bartholomew
CORNDEAN	a hamlet	Imperial
Frampton	hamlet	Bartholomew
FRAMPTON AND NAUNTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Greet	hamlet	Bartholomew
GREET	a hamlet	Imperial
Gretton	hamlet	Bartholomew
GRETTON	a chapelry	Imperial
Langley	hamlet	Bartholomew
LANGLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Naunton	hamlet	Bartholomew
NAUNTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Postlip	hamlet	Bartholomew
POSTLIP	a hamlet	Imperial
Sudeley Tenements	hamlet	Bartholomew
SUDELEY-TENEMENTS	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 Winchcombe 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.
Edwin Russell	Sept. 28 to Oct. 2: Great Risington to Winchcombe	3
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	2
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 2: Hay and Brecheinia	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
Paul Hentzner	Arrival and London	1
Edwin Russell	Oct. 3 to 9: Northleach, then to Herefordshire	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
Gretton	0	2
Stanley Pontlarge	0	2
Prescott	0	2
Hailes	3	2
Sudeley	0	2
Alderton	0	2
Westminster	0	2
Toddington	1	3
Farmcote	0	2
Woodmancote	0	2
Didbrook	0	2
Naunton	0	2
Guiting	0	1
Alstone	0	2
Southam	0	2
Charlton Abbots	0	2
Little Washbourne	0	2
Gotherington	2	2
Pinnock	0	2
Woolstone	0	2