Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DEVIZES	a town, two parishes, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Devizes (or Eastern) Division	palimentary division	Bartholomew
DEVIZES RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
POLSHAM	a tything	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 Devizes 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.
Henry Vincent	Apr. 1 to 7: Aftermath of the "fracas"	12
Henry Vincent	Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes	8
Henry Vincent	Apr. 1: The Devizes Riot	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	5
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	4
William Cobbett	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	2
William Cobbett	Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	2
Henry Vincent	Apr. 8 to 13: Bath	2
Henry Vincent	Apr. 15 to 20: Bristol and Newport	2
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	1
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	1
Robert Gammage	On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast	1
Robert Gammage	Eight months in Sherborne	1
Henry Vincent	Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud	1
Henry Vincent	Apr. 22 to 27: the Welsh Valleys	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
Southbroom	0	2
Roundway	4	0
Potterne	0	3
Rowde	0	2
Poulshot	0	2
Fullaway	0	3
Worton	0	2
Stert	0	2
Etchilhampton	0	2
Bromham	3	2
Bishops Cannings	0	2
Heddington	0	2
Horton	0	2
Marston	0	1
Bourton	0	2
Bulkington	0	2
Seend	3	2
Lavington	0	1
Urchfont	0	3
Littleton Pannell	0	2