Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Petherton, South	hundred	Bartholomew
Petherton, South	small town and parish	Bartholomew
South Petherton	town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Compton Durvill	tithing	Bartholomew
COMPTON-DURVILL	a tything	Imperial
Harp, South	tithing	Bartholomew
HARP (SOUTH)	a tything	Imperial
STRATTON (Over)	a tything	Imperial
Watergore	hamlet	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 South Petherton 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
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
Lopen	0	2
East Lambrook	0	2
Seavington St Michael	0	2
Shepton Beauchamp	0	2
Seavington St Mary	0	2
Merriott	0	2
Norton Sub Hamdon	0	2
Kingsbury Episcopi	0	3
Stoke Sub Hamdon	1	2
Chiselborough	0	2
Martock	2	2
Hinton St George	1	2
West Chinnock	0	3
Middle Chinnock	0	2
Stocklinch	0	4
Kingstone	0	1
Dinnington	0	2
Whitelackington	0	3
Barrington	0	2
Montacute	6	2