Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Orcop parish 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 Orcop 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.
William Cobbett Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere 1
Edwin Russell Oct. 3 to 9: Northleach, then to Herefordshire 1
Edwin Russell Dec. 9 to 13: Reviewing work in Herefordshire 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
Llanithog 0 1
Kilpeck 2 3
St Weonards 0 2
Garway 5 2
Llanwarne 0 2
Kentchurch 0 2
Much Dewchurch 0 3
Archenfield 0 1
Pencoyd 1 2
Kenderchurch 0 3
St Devereux 0 2
Llangunnock 0 1
Much Birch 1 3
Wormbridge 2 2
Tretire 0 2
Llandinabo 0 2
Michaelchurch 0 2
Pontrilas 0 2
Treville 0 2
Wormelow 0 2