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The following appear as names for Widecombe in the Moor. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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WIDCOMBE | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
WIDDECOMBE IN THE MOOR | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
WIDECOMBE | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
WIDECOMBE IN THE MOOR | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Widecombe in the Moor. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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WIDDECOMBE IN THE MOOR | Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | 1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 1, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Districts, Sub-districts, Parishes and Places'. |
WIDECOMBE IN THE MOOR | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 101. |
Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 101. | |
WIDECOMBE IN THE MOOR ST PANCRAS | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Ecclesiastical parishes or districts - Families or separate occupiers, and population, 1911'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Widecombe in the Moor, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Widecombe in the Moor, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Widecombe in the Moor, in Teignbridge and Devon | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5660/names
Date accessed: 20th September 2024