Holmwood, Surrey : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Savernake ecclesiastical district and railway station Bartholomew
SAVERNAKE two extra-parochial tracts and a chapelry Imperial
Savernake Forest ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
SAVERNAKE FOREST chapelry and an ancient forest Imperial
Savernake, North parish Bartholomew
Savernake, South, with Bromslade and Cadley parish 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 Savernake 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 Camden Wiltshire and Hampshire 1
William Gilpin Bristol to London 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
Leigh Hill 0 2
Wootton Rivers 1 2
Furze Cope 0 2
Overton Heath 0 2
St Margaret 0 2
Burbage 0 2
Marlborough 33 2
Clatford Park 0 2
Mildenhall 0 2
Easton Royal 2 3
Milton Lilbourne 6 3
Great Bedwyn 4 3
Oare 0 2
Little Bedwyn 0 3
Kinwardstone 0 2
Clatford 0 2
Huish 0 3
Kennet 2 2
Lockeridge 0 1
Elstub and Everleigh 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
NORTH SAVERNAKE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SAVENAC William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
SAVERNAKE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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).
SAVERNAKE FOREST 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).
SAVERNAKE NORTH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SAVERNAKE SOUTH WITH BROMSLADE AND CADLEY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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.