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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Castle Cary. You may be able to find further references to Castle Cary in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Castle Cary | market town and parish with railway station | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Castle Cary.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Clanville | hamlet | Bartholomew |
CLANVILLE | a hamlet | Imperial |
Cockhill | hamlet | Bartholomew |
DIMMER | a hamlet | Imperial |
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 Castle Cary 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. |
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William Camden | Dorset and Somerset | 2 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire | 2 |
William Camden | Huntingdon and Northampton | 1 |
William Camden | Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | Wiltshire and Dorset | 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 |
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Alford | 1 | 2 |
Ansford | 0 | 3 |
North Barrow | 0 | 2 |
North Cadbury | 2 | 3 |
Catsash | 0 | 2 |
Lovington | 0 | 2 |
Pitcombe | 0 | 2 |
Yarlington | 0 | 2 |
South Barrow | 0 | 2 |
Wheathill | 0 | 2 |
Ditcheat | 0 | 2 |
Hornblotton | 0 | 2 |
Wyke Champflower | 0 | 2 |
Sparkford | 0 | 2 |
Lamyat | 0 | 2 |
East Lydford | 0 | 2 |
Compton Pauncefoot | 0 | 3 |
Bratton Seymour | 0 | 2 |
South Cadbury | 1 | 2 |
Blackford | 0 | 2 |