Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Christchurch	hundred	Bartholomew
CHRISTCHURCH	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bransgore	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BURE	a tything	Imperial
Burton	place	Bartholomew
BURTON	a tything	Imperial
Godwinscroft	place	Bartholomew
HIGH-CLIFF	a seat and a chapelry	Imperial
HINTON-ADMIRAL	a hamlet and a chapelry	Imperial
Hurn	hamlet	Bartholomew
HURN	a tything	Imperial
Iford, (or Iver)	place	Bartholomew
IFORD, or IVER	a tything	Imperial
Muddiford	small watering-place	Bartholomew
MUDDIFORD	a village	Imperial
PARLEY	a tything	Imperial
POKESDOWN	a chapelry	Imperial
STREET	a tything	Imperial
TUCKTON	a tything	Imperial
Winkton	hamlet	Bartholomew
WINKTON	a tything	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 Christchurch 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.
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	3
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	2
William Cobbett	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	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
Burton	0	2
Muddiford	0	2
Highcliffe	0	2
Winkton	0	2
Iford	0	2
Bransgore	0	2
Blackwater	0	2
Pokesdown	0	1
Hinton Admiral	0	1
Ripley	0	1
Sopley	0	2
Shirley	0	2
Boscombe	0	2
West Herne	0	2
Westover	0	2
Holdenhurst	0	2
Bournemouth	0	2
Hurn	0	2
Milton	0	2
Moordown	0	1