Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wookey	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Castle	hamlet	Bartholomew
YARLEY	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 Wookey 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.
George Head	The Peak District	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	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
Henton	0	2
Easton	0	2
Castle	0	2
Westbury	0	3
Coxley	0	2
Godney	2	2
Theale	0	2
Wells	20	4
Glaston Twelve Hides	0	2
Rodney Stoke	0	2
Priddy	0	2
Draycott	0	2
Meare	0	2
Nyland	0	2
North Wootton	0	3
Glastonbury	25	2
Horrington	0	3
Wedmore	1	2
Westhay	0	2
Dinder	0	2