Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
POOLE	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
POOLE and BOURNEMOUTH railway	a railway	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 Poole 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	6
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	1
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	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
Parkstone	0	2
Lytchett	0	1
Branksome	0	1
Longfleet	0	2
Canford Magna	1	4
Hamworthy	0	2
Broadstone	0	1
Kinson	0	3
Brownsea	0	2
Cogdean	0	2
Corfe Mullen	0	2
Winton	0	1
Ensbury	0	1
Moordown	0	1
Leigh	0	2
Lytchett Minster	0	2
Little Canford	0	3
Wimborne Minster	13	3
Bournemouth	0	2
Holdenhurst	0	2