Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Northam	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Appledore	ecclesiastical district (St Mary) and seaport village	Bartholomew
APPLEDORE	a seaport village and a chapelry	Imperial
Northamridge	hamlet	Bartholomew
NORTHAM-RIDGE	a hamlet	Imperial
Westward Ho	coastal village	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 Northam 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 Camden	Cornwall and Devon	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
Westward Ho!	0	1
Appledore	0	2
Abbotsham	0	2
Westleigh	0	3
Bideford	21	2
Instow	0	2
Littleham	0	1
Landcross	0	2
Horwood	1	2
Alwington	0	2
Fremington	0	3
Weare Giffard	0	2
Braunton	0	3
Monkleigh	0	2
Heanton Punchardon	0	2
Alverdiscott	0	2
Newton Tracey	0	2
Huntshaw	0	2
Ashford	0	2
Parkham	0	2