Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
TAUNTON	a town, two parishes, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Taunton, St James	parish	Bartholomew
Taunton, St Mary Magdalen	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Rowbarton	ecclesiastical district	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 Taunton 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 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	8
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth	5
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	3
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	2
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lands End to Winchester	1
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South 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
Rowbarton	0	1
Wilton	2	2
Holway	0	2
Bishops Hull	0	2
Staplegrove	0	2
Cheddon Fitzpaine	0	2
Stoke St Mary	0	2
West Monkton	0	3
Ruishton	0	2
Trull	0	2
Norton Fitzwarren	0	2
Orchard Portman	1	2
Kingston	0	3
Thurlbear	0	2
Bradford	0	2
Creech St Michael	0	2
Thorn Falcon	0	2
Pitminster	0	2
Corfe	0	2
Hillfarrance	0	2