Cricklade, Wiltshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cricklade market town with railway station Bartholomew
CRICKLADE a town, two parishes, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
Cricklade (or Northern) Division parlimentary division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Chelworth place Bartholomew
CHELWORTH a tything Imperial
WHIDHILL a tything 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 Cricklade 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 Cobbett Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Berghcleere 3
William Cobbett Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury 3
William Camden Wiltshire and Hampshire 2
William Cobbett Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere 1
William Cobbett July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 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
Eisey 0 2
Latton 0 2
Down Ampney 1 2
Leigh 0 2
Ashton Keynes 1 2
Blunsdon St Andrew 0 3
Marston Meysey 0 2
South Cerney 0 3
Purton 0 2
Castle Eaton 0 2
Haydon 1 2
Broad Blunsdon 0 2
Driffield 0 2
Braydon 0 2
Ampney St Peter 0 1
Rodbourne Cheney 0 3
Poulton 0 2
Hannington 1 2
Harnhill 0 2
Lydiard Millicent 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CRECKLADE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CREKELAD William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CRICKLADE 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).
CRICKLADE OR NORTHERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CROCGELAD 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.