Trowbridge, Wiltshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Trowbridge market town and parish Bartholomew
TROWBRIDGE a town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Studley ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
STUDLEY 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 Trowbridge 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.
Henry Vincent Apr. 1 to 7: Aftermath of the "fracas" 4
William Camden Wiltshire and Hampshire 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire 3
Henry Vincent Apr. 29 to May 4: Trowbridge and London 3
Henry Vincent Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes 2
Henry Vincent Apr. 1: The Devizes Riot 2
Henry Vincent Feb. 26 to 27: Bath and Frome 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
Studley 0 2
Staverton 0 2
Hilperton 0 2
Wingfield 0 2
North Bradley 0 4
West Ashton 0 3
Holt 2 2
Southwick 1 2
Bradford on Avon 33 4
Whaddon 0 2
Steeple Ashton 0 2
Westwood 0 2
Heywood 0 2
Semington 0 2
Great Hinton 0 2
Bradford Leigh 0 2
Bearfield 6 0
Iford 0 2
Great Chalfield 0 2
Farleigh Hungerford 2 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
TROWBRIDG William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
TROWBRIDGE 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).
TRUBRIDGE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
TRUTHABRIG William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
TRUTHHABRIG 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.