Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Thame	hundred	Bartholomew
THAME	a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
THAME (The)	a river	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Moreton	hamlet	Bartholomew
MORETON	a hamlet	Imperial
PRIEST-END	a hamlet	Imperial
WESTON (North)	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 Thame 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 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	5
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	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
Tetsworth	0	2
Towersey	0	2
Attington	0	2
Sydenham	0	2
Rycote	0	2
Long Crendon	0	3
Emmington	0	2
Albury	0	2
Shabbington	0	2
Kingsey	0	2
Haddenham	0	2
Adwell	0	2
Tiddington	0	2
Great Haseley	1	3
Draycot	0	2
Wheatfield	0	2
Ickford	0	2
Chearsley	1	2
Ilmer	0	3
Aston Rowant	0	2