Shrivenham, Berkshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Shrivenham hundred Bartholomew
Shrivenham parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew
SHRIVENHAM a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Beckett tithing Bartholomew
BECKETT a tything Imperial
Bourton township Bartholomew
BOURTON a tything Imperial
Fernham township and hamlet Bartholomew
FERNHAM a hamlet Imperial
Longcot township Bartholomew
LONGCOTT a township and a chapelry Imperial
Watchfield township Bartholomew
WATCHFIELD a township 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
Beckett 0 2
Watchfield 0 2
Longcott 0 2
Bourton 0 2
Sevenhampton 0 2
Coleshill 9 2
Compton Beauchamp 0 2
Little Coxwell 0 3
Fernham 0 2
Great Coxwell 0 2
Woolstone 0 2
Highworth 7 3
Ashbury 1 2
Uffington 0 2
South Marston 0 2
Bishopstone 0 2
Little Hinton 0 2
Stanton Fitzwarren 0 2
Shellingford 0 2
Buscot 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
SHRIVENHAM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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).

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.