Great Somerford, Wiltshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Broad Somerford place with school Bartholomew
Great Somerford Bartholomew
SOMERFORD (Great or Broad) a parish, with a village and a hamlet Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Seagry Heath hamlet Bartholomew
Startley hamlet Bartholomew
STARTLEY a hamlet Imperial

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
Seagry 0 2
Rodbourne 0 2
Little Somerford 0 3
Corston 0 2
Christian Malford 0 3
Sutton Benger 0 2
Lea 0 2
Cleverton 0 2
Dauntsey 3 2
Draycot Cerne 0 2
Stanton St Quintin 0 2
Bradenstoke 1 2
Clack 0 2
Garsdon 0 2
Malmesbury 30 4
Westport St Mary 0 2
Avon 1 3
Kington Langley 0 4
Brinkworth 0 2
Bremilham 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BROAD SOMERFORD 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).
GREAT SOMERFORD 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).
SOMERFORD John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
SOMERFORD BROAD John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
SOMERFORD GREAT John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
SOMERFORD GREAT OR BROAD 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.