Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Crewkerne	hundred	Bartholomew
Crewkerne	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ash	tithing	Bartholomew
ASH	a tything	Imperial
Black Down	tithing	Bartholomew
BLACK DOWN	a tything	Imperial
Clapton	hamlet	Bartholomew
CLAPTON	a tything	Imperial
Coombe	tithing	Bartholomew
COOMBE	a tything	Imperial
Easthams	tithing	Bartholomew
Furland	tithing	Bartholomew
FURLAND	a tything	Imperial
Greenham	hamlet	Bartholomew
GREENHAM	a tything	Imperial
Henley	hamlet	Bartholomew
HENLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Hewish	hamlet	Bartholomew
HEWISH	a tything	Imperial
HORN	a tything	Imperial
Laymore	hamlet	Bartholomew
LAYMORE	a hamlet	Imperial
WOOLMINSTONE	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 Crewkerne 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	Dorset and Somerset	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	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
Easthams	0	2
Misterton	0	2
Merriott	0	2
North Perrot	0	2
Seaborough	0	2
Haslebury Plucknett	0	3
Hinton St George	1	2
Clapton	0	2
Mosterton	0	2
South Perrot	0	2
Middle Chinnock	0	2
West Chinnock	0	3
Dinnington	0	2
Chillington	0	2
Lopen	0	2
Wayford	0	2
Chiselborough	0	2
Chedington	0	1
Kingstone	0	1
East Chinnock	0	3