Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Thame hundred Bartholomew
THAME a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred Imperial
THAME (The) a river Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Moreton hamlet Bartholomew
MORETON a hamlet Imperial
PRIEST-END a hamlet Imperial
WESTON (North) 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 Thame 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 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire 5
William Camden Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 1
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 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
Tetsworth 0 2
Towersey 0 2
Attington 0 2
Sydenham 0 2
Rycote 0 2
Long Crendon 0 3
Emmington 0 2
Albury 0 2
Shabbington 0 2
Kingsey 0 2
Haddenham 0 2
Adwell 0 2
Tiddington 0 2
Great Haseley 1 3
Draycot 0 2
Wheatfield 0 2
Ickford 0 2
Chearsley 1 2
Ilmer 0 3
Aston Rowant 0 2