Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Abbotsbury	parish and fishing village	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bexington	hamlet	Bartholomew
Elworth	hamlet	Bartholomew
ELWORTH	a hamlet	Imperial
Rodden	hamlet	Bartholomew
RODDEN	a hamlet	Imperial
Weare	hamlet	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 Abbotsbury 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 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	2

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
Bexington	0	2
Portesham	0	3
Littlebredy	0	3
Langton Herring	0	2
Puncknowle	0	2
Winterborne Steepleton	0	2
Kingston Russell	0	2
Uggscombe	0	2
Long Bredy	0	3
Buckland Ripers	0	2
Winterbourne Abbas	0	2
Fleet	0	2
Litton Cheney	0	2
Winterborne St Martin	0	3
Swyre	0	2
Berwick	0	2
Chickerell	0	3
Upwey	0	3
Wabyhouse	0	2
Chilcombe	0	3