Kingswood by Bitton, Gloucestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kingswood ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
KINGSWOOD a village and a chapelry 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 Kingswood By Bitton 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.
Charles Wesley Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again 19
John Wesley 1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales 11
Charles Wesley 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne 8
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol 6
Charles Wesley Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales 5
Charles Wesley Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath 3
Charles Wesley May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall 3
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall 3
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland 3
Charles Wesley 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales 2
Charles Wesley 1750: Bristol and London 2
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north 2
John Wesley 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy 2
John Wesley 1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners 2
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 2
John Wesley 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon 2
Charles Wesley Jan. 2 - Feb. 27, 1743: Bristol and Bath 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham 1
Charles Wesley Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales 1
John Wesley 1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield 1
John Wesley 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 1
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 1
John Wesley 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War 1
John Wesley 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland 1
John Wesley 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life 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
Oldland 0 2
Two Mile Hill 0 2
Hanham 12 2
Warmley 0 2
St George 0 2
Conham 8 0
Down End 0 3
Siston 1 2
Fishponds 3 2
Mangotsfield 0 2
Bridge Yate 0 2
Stapleton 0 2
Moorfields 0 1
Bitton 0 2
Frenchay 1 2
Lawrence Hill 0 1
Easton 0 3
Barton Hill 0 1
Brislington 0 2
Wick 5 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Kingswood By Bitton. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
KINGSWOOD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
Charles Wesley The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1849).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
KINGSWOOD BY BITTON GBHGIS Great Britain Historical GIS Project (, ).

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.