Cullompton, Devon : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Collumpton town Bartholomew
COLLUMPTON, or Cullompton a town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial
Cullompton, or Collumpton market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew

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 Cullompton 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.
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth 2
William Camden Cornwall and Devon 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon 1
Robert Gammage Touring South Wales 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 1
John Wesley 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland 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
Hayridge 0 2
Bradninch 0 2
Willand 0 2
Bradfield 0 2
Plymtree 0 2
Hele 0 2
Halberton 0 3
Butterleigh 0 2
Clyst Hydon 0 4
Kentisbeare 0 2
Clyst St Lawrence 0 2
Silverton 0 2
Broadhembury 0 2
Luton 0 2
Cliston 0 2
Bickleigh 0 2
Payhembury 0 3
Blackborough 0 2
Uffculme 1 2
Broad Clyst 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
COLLUMPTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Robert Gammage 'Recollections of a Chartist', in the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1883-5).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
COLLUMPTON OR CULLOMPTON John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
COLUMBTON William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
CULIMTON Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
CULLOMPTON 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).
CULLOMPTON OR COLLUMPTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CULLUMBTON Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).

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.