Wimborne Minster, Dorset : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
WIMBORNE a district and a division Imperial
WIMBORNE-MINSTER a town and a parish Imperial
Wimborne (or Wimborne Minster) market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Badbury tithing Bartholomew
COWGROVE, or Kinson a hamlet Imperial
Gaunts school Bartholomew
Hillbutts village Bartholomew
HOLT a chapelry Imperial
Hound Hill place Bartholomew
Kingston Lacy seat Bartholomew
KINGSTON-LACY a manor Imperial
Leigh village Bartholomew
PAMPHILL a tything Imperial
Petersham hamlet Bartholomew
Stone House seat 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 Wimborne Minster 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.
William Camden Dorset and Somerset 9
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset 3
Paul Hentzner Westminster and Whitehall 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
Leigh 0 2
Cogdean 0 2
Little Canford 0 3
Pamphill 0 1
Kingston Lacy 1 2
Broadstone 0 1
Corfe Mullen 0 2
Canford Magna 1 4
Hinton Parva 0 4
Hampreston 0 2
Holt 0 2
Badbury 3 2
Hinton Martell 0 2
Chalbury 0 2
Lytchett 0 1
Shapwick 0 2
Kinson 0 3
Poole 10 3
Witchampton 1 2
West Moors 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
VINDOGLADIA William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
VINOGLADIA William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WIMBORNE 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).
WIMBORNE MINSTER 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).
WIMBORNE OR WIMBORNE MINSTER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
WIMBURN Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
WIMBURNMINSTER Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
WINBORNMINSTER Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
WINBOURNE Paul Hentzner Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (London: Cassell, 1892).
WINBURN William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WINBURNE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WINBURNHAMYNSTRE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WINBURNMINSTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WYNBURNHAM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.