West Cranmore, Somerset : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
CRANMORE a railway station Imperial
Cranmore East and Cranmore West 2 adjacent parsishes Bartholomew
CRANMORE (West) a parish Imperial
West Cranmore Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dean hamlet 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
East Cranmore 0 1
Chesterblade 0 1
Doulting 0 2
Downhead 0 2
Stoke St Michael 0 3
Wanstrow 0 2
Batcombe 0 2
Evercreech 0 2
Leigh upon Mendip 0 2
Downside 0 2
Shepton Mallet 8 2
Cloford 0 2
Oakhill 4 2
Mendip 6 3
Whitstone 0 2
Coleford 6 2
Upton Noble 0 2
Ashwick 0 2
Chantry 0 2
Milton Clevedon 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CRANMORE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
CRANMORE EAST AND CRANMORE WEST John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CRANMORE WEST John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WEST CRANMORE 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).

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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.