Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Coleford	town	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 Coleford 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.
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	1
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	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
Leigh upon Mendip	0	2
Vobster	0	2
Holcombe	0	2
Babington	0	2
Stoke St Michael	0	3
Kilmersdon	0	3
Stratton on the Fosse	0	2
Downhead	0	2
Mells	0	2
Chantry	0	2
Whatley	0	2
East Cranmore	0	1
Chilcompton	1	2
Oakhill	0	2
Ashwick	0	2
West Cranmore	0	4
Midsomer Norton	0	2
Writhlington	0	2
Elm	0	2
Cloford	0	2