Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MINEHEAD	a small town, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Periton	hamlet	Bartholomew
PERITON	a hamlet	Imperial
Vineford	hamlet	Bartholomew
VINEFORD	a hamlet	Imperial
Woodcombe	hamlet	Bartholomew
WOODCOMBE	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 Minehead 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	4
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	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
Staunton	0	2
Alcombe	0	2
Dunster	4	2
Wootton Courtenay	0	2
Selworthy	0	2
Timberscombe	0	2
Holnicote	0	2
Carhampton	1	3
Bossington	0	2
Blue Anchor	0	2
Withycombe	0	2
Luccombe	0	3
Chapel Cleeve	0	2
Luxborough	0	2
Cutcombe	0	2
Old Cleeve	0	2
Porlock	6	2
Stoke Pero	0	2
St Decumans	0	2
Watchet	5	2