A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Chippenham. You may be able to find further references to Chippenham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Chippenham | hundred | Bartholomew | CHIPPENHAM | a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred | Imperial | Chippenham (or North-Western) Division | parlimentary division | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Chippenham.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Allington | tithing | Bartholomew | ALLINGTON | a tything | Imperial | NETHERMORE | a tything | Imperial | STANLEY | a tything | Imperial | STUDLEY | a hamlet | Imperial | TYTHERTON-LUCAS | a chapelry | Imperial | Tytherton Lucas, Chippenham with | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
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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 Chippenham 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 | Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes | 3 | William Camden | Wiltshire and Hampshire | 2 | William Gilpin | Bristol to London | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire | 1 | John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 1 | Henry Vincent | Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud | 1 | Henry Vincent | Apr. 1: The Devizes Riot | 1 | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hardenhuish | 0 | 2 |
| Langley Burrell | 0 | 2 |
| Lackham | 0 | 2 |
| Tytherton Lucas | 0 | 2 |
| Pewsham | 0 | 2 |
| Easton | 0 | 2 |
| Kington Langley | 0 | 4 |
| Stanley | 0 | 1 |
| Lacock | 2 | 3 |
| Tytherton | 0 | 2 |
| Kington St Michael | 0 | 2 |
| Derry Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Easton Piercy | 0 | 2 |
| Avon | 0 | 3 |
| Corsham | 1 | 2 |
| Draycot Cerne | 0 | 2 |
| Bowden Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Biddestone | 0 | 3 |
| Sutton Benger | 0 | 2 |
| Yatton Keynell | 0 | 2 |