Chew Magna, Somerset : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Chew hundred Bartholomew
CHEW a hundred Imperial
Chew Magna parish Bartholomew
CHEW-MAGNA a village, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
ELM (North) a tything Imperial
Knighton Sutton hamlet Bartholomew
KNIGHTON-SUTTON a township Imperial
Knowle hamlet Bartholomew
KNOWLE a tything Imperial
North Elm hamlet Bartholomew
Stone hamlet Bartholomew
STONE a tything Imperial
Sutton, Bishop's ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
Sutton Court seat Bartholomew
SUTTON-COURT the seat 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
Bishops Sutton 0 2
Stowey 0 4
Chew Stoke 0 2
Stanton Drew 0 2
Norton Hawkfield 0 2
Norton Malreward 0 2
Pensford 6 3
North Widcombe 0 2
Dundry 0 2
Winford 0 2
Chewton 0 2
Publow 2 2
Chelwood 0 2
Harptree 0 1
Cameley 0 2
Clutton 0 2
Nempnett Thrubwell 0 2
Compton Martin 1 2
Temple Cloud 0 2
Hinton Blewett 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CHEW 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).
CHEW MAGNA 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:

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  • 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.