Malmesbury, Wiltshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Malmesbury hundred Bartholomew
Malmesbury market town Bartholomew
MALMSBURY a town, a parish, two sub-districts, a district, and a hundred Imperial
MALMSBURY-ABBEY an extra-parochial place Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Burton Hill tithing Bartholomew
BURTON-HILL a tything Imperial
COLE-PARK a tything Imperial
Corston and Rodbourne ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Rodbourne village Bartholomew
WEST PARK a tything Imperial

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 Malmesbury 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 13
William Cobbett Sept. 6th to 11th, 1826: Highworth to Malmsbury 4
William Cobbett Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire 2
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire 2
William Camden The Division of Britaine 1
William Camden Dorset and Somerset 1
William Camden Ireland (1) 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 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
Westport St Mary 0 2
Brokenborough 2 2
Bremilham 0 2
Lea 0 2
Corston 0 2
Rodbourne 0 2
Foxley 0 2
Garsdon 0 2
Shipton Moyne 0 2
Little Somerford 0 3
Easton Grey 0 2
Cleverton 0 2
Norton 0 2
Charlton 0 2
Hankerton 0 2
Great Somerford 0 3
Long Newnton 0 3
Sherston Parva 0 2
Hullavington 0 2
Crudwell 1 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
ADELMESBIRIG William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
INGELBORNE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
INGLEBORNE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MAIDULFESBURGE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MAIDULPHI URBS William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MAIDULPHS CITIE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MAILDULFSBURY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MAIMSBURY Charles Wesley The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1849).
MALDUBURIE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MALDUNSBURG William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MALMESBURIE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MALMESBURY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
MALMSBURY William Cobbett Rural Rides (Letchworth: Temple Press, 1932).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MALMSBURY ABBEY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MEADELMESBYRIG John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MELDUNUM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.