Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Overton (or Overtown)	parish	Bartholomew
Overton, West	township	Bartholomew
OVERTON (West)	a township	Imperial
Overtown		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ALTON-PRIORS	a chapelry	Imperial
Lockeridge House	seat	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 West Overton 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.
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
Lockeridge	0	1
East Kennett	0	2
Fyfield	0	2
Clatford	0	2
Huish	0	3
Clatford Park	0	2
Alton Barnes	0	2
Silbury Hill	1	2
Alton Priors	1	2
Overton Heath	0	2
Preshute	1	2
Avebury	3	2
Wilcot	0	2
Oare	0	2
Kennet	2	2
Marlborough	33	2
Stanton St Bernard	0	2
Allington	0	2
Winterbourne Monkton	0	2
St Margaret	0	2