Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Chewton Mendip	parish, township, and village	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Widcombe, North	township	Bartholomew
WIDCOMBE (North)	a tything	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 Chewton Mendip 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.
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	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
Litton	0	2
Green Oare	0	1
East Harptree	1	3
Emborough	0	2
Hinton Blewett	0	2
West Harptree	0	3
Chewton	0	2
Harptree	0	1
Binegar	0	2
Ston Easton	0	3
Horrington	0	3
North Widcombe	0	2
Priddy	0	2
Cameley	0	2
Compton Martin	1	2
Farrington Gurney	0	2
Chilcompton	1	2
Temple Cloud	0	2
Ashwick	0	2
Dinder	0	2