Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Topsham	market town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Countess Weir	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
COUNTESS WEIR	a chapelry	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 Topsham 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 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth	2
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	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
Clyst St George	0	2
Countess Wear	0	2
Bishops Clyst	0	1
Clyst St Mary	0	3
Sowton	0	2
Exminster	2	3
Powderham	2	2
Heavitree	0	2
Nutwell	0	2
St Leonard	0	1
Whipton	0	2
Farringdon	0	2
Exeter	65	8
Woodbury Salterton	0	3
Woodbury	0	2
Kennford	0	2
Pinhoe	0	2
Clyst Honiton	0	2
Shillingford	0	2
Lympstone	0	2