Northleach, Gloucestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Northleach small market town Bartholomew
NORTHLEACH a small town, a parish, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Eastington township Bartholomew

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 Northleach 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.
Edwin Russell Sept. 28 to Oct. 2: Great Risington to Winchcombe 2
Edwin Russell Oct. 3 to 9: Northleach, then to Herefordshire 2
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 1
William Cobbett Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere 1
William Gilpin London to Ross 1
Edwin Russell Sept. 13 to 17: Moreton in Marsh, Northleach and Fairford 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 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 Historical Gazetteer
Hampnett 0 2
Eastington 0 2
Farmington 0 2
Turkdean 0 2
Stowell 0 2
Yanworth 0 2
Cotswold 8 3
Haselton 0 4
Coln St Dennis 0 2
Bradley 0 2
Sherborne 1 2
Notgrove 0 2
Compton Abdale 0 2
Clapton 0 2
Aston Blank 0 2
Aldsworth 0 2
Salperton 0 2
Chedworth 3 2
Bibury 0 2
Bourton on the Water 1 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Northleach. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
NORTH LEACH William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
William Gilpin Observations of the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (London: Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1800).
Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
NORTHLEACH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.