Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Mere	hundred	Bartholomew
MERE	a town, a parish, a district, and a hundred	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CHADDENWICK	a tything	Imperial
Chaddenwicke	tithing	Bartholomew
Woodlands	hamlet	Bartholomew
WOODLANDS	a tything	Imperial
ZEALS, or Zeals-Green	a chapelry, with a village	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 Mere 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	2
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	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
West Knoyle	0	2
Zeals	0	2
Kingston Deverill	0	2
Silton	0	2
Norton Ferris	0	2
Stourton	0	2
Monkton Deverill	0	2
Kilmington	0	2
Gillingham	3	2
Sedgehill	0	2
East Knoyle	0	3
Bourton	0	2
Stourhead	0	2
Maiden Bradley	0	2
Brixton Deverill	0	2
Penselwood	1	3
Motcombe	0	2
Upper Pertwood	0	2
Clapton Forms	0	2
Hill Deverill	0	2