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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Abingdon. You may be able to find further references to Abingdon in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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ABINGDON | a town, two parishes, a subdistrict, and a district | Imperial |
Abingdon (or Northern) Division | parliamentary division | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Abingdon.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Barton Farm | tract of land | Bartholomew |
Cholsall | hamlet | Bartholomew |
CHOLSALL | a hamlet | Imperial |
NORTHCOTT, or Northcourt | a hamlet | Imperial |
SANDFORD | a township | Imperial |
Shippon | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
SHIPPON | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
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 Abingdon 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. |
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William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 10 |
Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 4 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire | 3 |
William Cobbett | Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere | 2 |
William Camden | The Division of Britaine | 1 |
Charles Wesley | Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City | 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 |
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Northcourt | 0 | 1 |
Shippon | 0 | 2 |
Sutton Wick | 0 | 2 |
Culham | 0 | 2 |
Sunningwell | 1 | 2 |
Radley | 0 | 2 |
Sutton Courtenay | 0 | 2 |
Drayton | 0 | 2 |
Dry Sandford | 0 | 2 |
Chandlings Farm | 0 | 1 |
Wootton | 0 | 2 |
Marcham | 0 | 2 |
Hormer | 0 | 2 |
Bagley Wood | 0 | 2 |
Nuneham Courtenay | 4 | 2 |
Ock | 0 | 2 |
Besselsleigh | 2 | 2 |
Appleford | 0 | 2 |
Clifton Hampden | 0 | 2 |
Kennington | 0 | 2 |