Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BIDEFORD	a town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Higher Winsford	village	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 Bideford 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 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	18
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	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
Landcross	0	2
Littleham	0	1
Westleigh	0	3
Weare Giffard	0	2
Northam	1	2
Westward Ho!	0	1
Abbotsham	0	2
Monkleigh	0	2
Appledore	0	2
Horwood	1	2
Instow	0	2
Alwington	0	2
Alverdiscott	0	2
Huntshaw	0	2
Great Torrington	3	2
Newton Tracey	0	2
Frithelstock	0	2
Fremington	0	3
Buckland Brewer	0	2
Parkham	0	2