Stokenham, Devon : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Stokenham parish Bartholomew
STOKENHAM, or Stokingham a village, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Beesands fishing village Bartholomew
Beeson hamlet Bartholomew
BEESON a hamlet Imperial
Chillington hamlet Bartholomew
CHILLINGTON a hamlet Imperial
Hallsands fishing village Bartholomew
HALSANDS a fishing village Imperial
Hellaton village Bartholomew
Kellaton (or Kellington) hamlet Bartholomew
KELLATON, or Killington a hamlet Imperial
Torcross fishing village Bartholomew
TORCROSS a village Imperial

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
Torcross 0 2
Chillington 0 2
Frogmore 0 2
South Pool 0 3
Chivelstone 0 2
Sherford 0 2
Start Point 0 2
Slapton 0 2
Prawle 0 2
East Portlemouth 0 2
Strete 0 1
Charleton 0 3
Kingsbridge 0 2
East Allington 0 2
Dodbrooke 0 2
Buckland Tout Saints 0 2
Salcombe 0 2
Coleridge 0 2
West Alvington 0 3
Blackawton 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
STOKENHAM 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).
STOKENHAM OR STOKINGHAM John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
STOKINGHAM 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.