Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tiverton	hundred	Bartholomew
TIVERTON	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Tiverton (or North Eastern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Chettiscombe	village	Bartholomew
Chevithome	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHEVITHOME	a hamlet	Imperial
CLARE		Imperial
Craze Lowman	hamlet	Bartholomew
PITT		Imperial
PRYORS		Imperial
TIDCOMBE		Imperial
West Exe	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Withley	curacy	Bartholomew

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 Tiverton 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.
Charles Wesley	Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	6
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	3
Charles Wesley	Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon	3
Charles Wesley	1738: Around London, and Oxfordshire	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Robert Gammage	Standing for Parliament in Cheltenham, 1852	1
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	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 Exe	0	1
Calverleigh	0	2
Washfield	0	2
Loxbeare	0	2
Cove	0	2
Butterleigh	0	2
Halberton	0	3
Stoodleigh	0	2
Uplowman	0	2
Cadeleigh	0	2
Huntsham	0	2
Templeton	0	2
Bickleigh	0	2
Cruwys Morchard	0	3
Sampford Peverell	0	2
Bampton	4	3
Willand	0	2
Hockworthy	0	2
Oakford	0	2
Hightleigh	0	2