Brockhampton, Herefordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BRIDGEWATER, or Bridgwater a town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district Imperial
Bridgwater parish, municipal borough, and seaport Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Eastover ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Hamp hamlet Bartholomew
Haygrove hamlet Bartholomew
HAYGROVE 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 Bridgwater 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 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire 8
William Camden Dorset and Somerset 3
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth 2
William Camden Cornwall and Devon 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 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
Eastover 0 2
Chilton Trinity 0 2
Wembdon 0 2
Huntworth 0 2
Durleigh 0 2
Chedzoy 0 2
Bawdrip 0 2
Goathurst 0 2
North Petherton 1 4
Andersfield 0 2
Puriton 0 2
Pennypound 0 2
Cannington 1 3
Northmoor Green 0 3
Westonzoyland 0 2
North Newton 0 2
Pawlett 0 2
Stockland Bristol 0 2
Enmore 0 2
Woolavington 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BRIDGE WATER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
BRIDGEWATER Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
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).
BRIDGEWATER OR BRIDGWATER John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BRIDG WATER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BRIDGWATER 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).
BRUGGE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BURGH WALTER 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).
BURGHWALTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
EASTOVER 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.