Horsham, Sussex : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BIDDESTONE, or Bidston a parish Imperial
Biddestone St Nicholas parish Bartholomew
Biddestone St Peter parish Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Slaughterford 0 2
Yatton Keynell 0 2
Colerne 0 2
Corsham 1 2
Castle Combe 2 2
North Wraxall 0 3
Easton 0 2
Easton Piercy 0 2
Neston 0 1
Hardenhuish 0 2
Leigh Delamere 0 2
Hazelbury 0 2
Ditteridge 0 2
Box 0 3
Chapel Plaster 0 2
Chippenham 12 4
Kington St Michael 0 2
Nettleton 0 2
Grittleton 0 2
West Kington 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BIDDESTONE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BIDDESTONE OR BIDSTON John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BIDDESTONE ST NICHOLAS John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BIDDESTONE ST PETER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BIDSTON 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.