Swansea, Glamorgan : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Molton, North parish Bartholomew
MOLTON (NORTH) a village and a parish Imperial
North Molton parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
BEN-TWITCHEN a hamlet Imperial
Court Hall seat Bartholomew
COURT-HALL a seat Imperial
Flitton hamlet Bartholomew
FLITTON a hamlet Imperial
Fyldon hamlet Bartholomew
Heasley hamlet Bartholomew
HEASLEY a hamlet Imperial
Hemston 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
Flitton Barton 0 2
Twitchen 0 2
High Bray 0 2
Charles 0 3
East Buckland 0 2
South Molton 0 4
Bishops Nympton 0 2
Simonsbath 0 2
Filleigh 0 2
Exmoor 1 2
West Buckland 0 3
Molland 0 2
George Nympton 0 3
Stoke Rivers 0 2
Withypool 0 2
Challcombe 0 2
Mariansleigh 0 2
Bratton Fleming 0 2
Hawkridge 0 2
Swimbridge 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
MOLTON 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).
MOLTON NORTH 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).
NORTH MOLTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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.