Aughrim, County Galway : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
FONTMELL a village, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial
Fontmell Magna parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bedcester hamlet Bartholomew
BEDCESTER a hamlet Imperial
Hartgrove tithing Bartholomew
HARTGROVE a tything 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
Compton Abbas 0 3
Sutton Waldron 0 2
East Orchard 0 2
Melbury Abbas 0 2
Farringdon 0 2
Iwerne Minster 0 2
West Orchard 0 2
Margaret Marsh 0 2
Cann 0 3
Alcester 0 2
Iwerne Courtney 0 3
Ashmore 0 2
Shaftesbury 10 3
Manston 0 2
Childe Okeford 0 3
Hammoon 0 2
Redland 0 2
Stour Provost 0 2
Iwerne Stepleton 0 2
Donhead St Mary 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

  • 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.