Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Malmesbury	hundred	Bartholomew
MALMSBURY	a town, a parish, two sub-districts, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
MALMSBURY-ABBEY	an extra-parochial place	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burton Hill	tithing	Bartholomew
BURTON-HILL	a tything	Imperial
COLE-PARK	a tything	Imperial
Corston and Rodbourne	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Rodbourne	village	Bartholomew
WEST PARK	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 Malmesbury 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	Wiltshire and Hampshire	13
William Cobbett	Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury	4
William Cobbett	Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire	2
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	2
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	1
William Camden	Ireland (1)	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	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
Westport St Mary	0	2
Brokenborough	2	2
Bremilham	0	2
Lea	0	2
Corston	0	2
Rodbourne	0	2
Foxley	0	2
Garsdon	0	2
Shipton Moyne	0	2
Little Somerford	0	3
Easton Grey	0	2
Cleverton	0	2
Norton	0	2
Charlton	0	2
Hankerton	0	2
Great Somerford	0	3
Long Newnton	0	3
Sherston Parva	0	2
Hullavington	0	2
Crudwell	1	2