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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Cirencester. You may be able to find further references to Cirencester in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Cicester | Bartholomew | Cirencester | hundred and parish | Bartholomew | CIRENCESTER | a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred | Imperial | Cirencester (or Eastern) Division | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Cirencester.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Barton | tithing | Bartholomew | BARTON | a tything | Imperial | OAKLEY | a tything | Imperial | SPIRRINGATE | a tything | Imperial | Watermoor | curacy | Bartholomew | WATERMOOR | a chapelry | Imperial | WIGGOLD | a tything | Imperial |
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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 Cirencester 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 | Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire | 10 | William Cobbett | Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester | 6 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester | 5 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire | 3 | William Cobbett | Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere | 2 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands | 2 | Charles Wesley | 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 2 | Henry Vincent | Feb. 28 to Mar. 9: Bristol, Cirencester and Stroud | 2 | William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 1 | William Cobbett | Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere | 1 | Charles Wesley | May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall | 1 | Charles Wesley | 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales | 1 | Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland | 1 | Henry Vincent | Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud | 1 |
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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 |
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Stratton | 0 | 2 |
Crownthorne and Minety | 0 | 2 |
Daglingworth | 0 | 2 |
Oakley | 0 | 3 |
Coates | 0 | 2 |
Baunton | 0 | 2 |
Siddington | 0 | 2 |
Preston | 0 | 2 |
Bagendon | 0 | 2 |
Duntisbourne Rouse | 0 | 2 |
Kemble | 0 | 2 |
Shorncott | 0 | 2 |
Ampney Crucis | 0 | 2 |
North Cerney | 0 | 3 |
Harnhill | 0 | 2 |
Woodmancote | 0 | 2 |
Duntisbourne Abbots | 0 | 2 |
Somerford Keynes | 2 | 2 |
Sapperton | 0 | 3 |
Poole Keynes | 0 | 2 |