Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bishops-Tawton	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Newport	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
NEWPORT	a suburban village and a chapelry	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 Bishops Tawton 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
Hanaford	0	2
Tawstock	1	2
Harracott	0	2
Landkey	0	2
Newport	0	2
Swimbridge	0	2
Barnstaple	18	2
Atherington	0	2
Newton Tracey	0	2
Yarnscombe	0	2
Goodleigh	0	2
Pilton	0	2
Bradiford	0	2
Chittlehampton	1	2
Fremington	0	3
Horwood	1	2
Alverdiscott	0	2
West Buckland	0	3
Warkleigh	0	2
Filleigh	0	2