Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tavistock	hundred	Bartholomew
TAVISTOCK	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Tavistock (or Western) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Eastcott	village	Bartholomew
PRISTACOTT	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 Tavistock 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. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	3
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	2
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	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
Whitchurch	0	2
Gulworthy	0	1
Lamerton	0	2
Lanehead	0	2
Sampford Spiney	0	2
Newbridge	0	2
Horrabridge	0	2
Gunnislake	0	2
Morwellham	0	2
Marytavy	0	4
Horndon	0	2
Sydenham Damerel	0	2
Buckland Monachorum	0	2
Calstock	0	2
Yelverton	0	1
Brentor	0	1
Petertavy	0	2
Milton Abbot	0	2
Bere Alston	0	2
Walkhampton	0	2