Bearfield, Wiltshire : Historical writing

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 Bearfield 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.
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall 2
Charles Wesley Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath 1
Charles Wesley 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales 1
Charles Wesley 1750: Bristol and London 1
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north 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
Bradford on Avon 33 4
Bradford Leigh 0 2
Winsley 0 2
South Wraxall 0 1
Westwood 0 2
Little Chalfield 0 2
Monkton Farleigh 0 2
Holt 2 2
Iford 0 2
Staverton 0 2
Great Chalfield 0 2
Freshford 5 2
Wingfield 0 2
Limpley Stoke 0 2
Farleigh Hungerford 2 2
Claverton 0 3
Cottles 0 1
Atworth 0 2
Trowbridge 18 2
Monkton Combe 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BEARFIELD GBHGIS Great Britain Historical GIS Project (, ).

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.