Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bishops-Lydeard parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ash Week tithing Bartholomew
ASH-WEEK a tything Imperial
Bagborough, East tithing Bartholomew
BAGBOROUGH (East) a tything Imperial
CAMES-ASH a tything Imperial
CHURCH a tything Imperial
Coombe, East tithing Bartholomew
COOMBE (East) a tything Imperial
FREE a tything Imperial
Hill tithing Bartholomew
HILL a tything Imperial
Kenley Bottom hamlet Bartholomew
KENLEY-BOTTOM a hamlet Imperial
QUANTOCK a tything Imperial
Quantock Lodge seat Bartholomew
Sandhill Park seat Bartholomew
SANDHILL PARK the seat 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 Bishops Lydeard 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
Cothelstone 0 2
Combe Florey 0 2
Ash Priors 0 2
Heathfield 0 2
West Bagborough 0 2
Halse 0 2
Norton Fitzwarren 0 2
Kingston 0 3
Lydeard St Lawrence 0 2
Staplegrove 0 2
Oake 0 2
Hillfarrance 0 2
Broomfield 0 2
Aisholt 0 3
Fitzhead 0 2
Bishops Hull 0 2
Cheddon Fitzpaine 0 2
Rowbarton 0 1
Tolland 0 2
Bradford 0 2