Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
DURSLEY a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Woodmancote hamlet Bartholomew
WOODMANCOTE 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 Dursley 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 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 2
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 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
Woodmancote 0 2
Uley 3 2
Cam 0 4
North Nibley 0 3
Stinchcombe 0 2
Wotton under Edge 1 2
Owlpen 0 2
Coaley 0 2
Ozleworth 0 2
Nympsfield 2 2
Alkington 0 2
Frocester 0 2
Breadstone 0 2
Kingscote 0 2
Cambridge 0 2
Newport 0 2
Leonard Stanley 2 2
Newington Bagpath 0 2
Slimbridge 0 2
Alderley 1 2