Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Gillingham	market town	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BOURTON	a chapelry	Imperial
Bugley	hamlet	Bartholomew
BUGLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Huntingford	hamlet	Bartholomew
Milton on Stour	village	Bartholomew
MILTON-UPON-STOUR	a hamlet	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 Gillingham 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 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	2
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	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
Silton	0	2
East Stour	0	3
Bourton	0	2
Motcombe	0	2
Cucklington	1	2
Zeals	0	2
West Stour	0	2
Buckhorn Weston	0	2
Clapton Forms	0	2
Mere	3	3
Penselwood	1	3
Stour Provost	0	2
Sedgehill	0	2
Kington Magna	0	2
Stoke Trister	1	2
Fifehead Magdalen	0	2
Todber	0	2
Alcester	0	2
Stourton	0	2
West Knoyle	0	2