Doveridge, Derbyshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dovebridge parish Bartholomew
DOVERIDGE a village and a parish Imperial
Doveridge (or Dovebridge) parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Broughton, West hamlet Bartholomew
BROUGHTON (West) a hamlet Imperial
Eaton hamlet Bartholomew
EATON a hamlet Imperial
Holtwood place Bartholomew
Sedsall hamlet Bartholomew
SEDSALL a hamlet 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 Doveridge 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.
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District 2

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
Somersal Herbert 0 2
Eaton 0 2
Crakemarsh 0 1
Uttoxeter 7 2
Marston Montgomery 0 2
Sudbury 0 2
Stramshall 0 2
Rocester 0 2
Marchington 0 4
Cubley 0 2
Boyleston 0 2
Beamhurst 0 2
Norbury 2 2
Bramshall 0 2
Draycott in the Clay 0 2
Denstone 0 2
Loxley 0 2
Hungry Bentley 0 3
Coton in the Clay 0 2
Stydd 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
DOVE BRIDGE Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
DOVEBRIDGE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
DOVERIDGE 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).
DOVERIDGE OR DOVEBRIDGE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
DOWBRIDGE 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.