Cirencester, Gloucestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cicester Bartholomew
Cirencester hundred and parish Bartholomew
CIRENCESTER a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred Imperial
Cirencester (or Eastern) Division Bartholomew
Cirenchester, or Cicester 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 Cirencester.

Place Type of entry Source
Barton tithing Bartholomew
BARTON a tything Imperial
OAKLEY a tything Imperial
SPIRRINGATE a tything Imperial
Watermoor curacy Bartholomew
WATERMOOR a chapelry Imperial
WIGGOLD a tything 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 Cirencester 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 Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 10
William Cobbett Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Berghcleere 6
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 5
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire 3
William Cobbett Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere 2
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands 2
Charles Wesley 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne 2
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 2
Henry Vincent Feb. 28 to Mar. 9: Bristol, Cirencester and Stroud 2
William Camden Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 1
William Cobbett Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere 1
Charles Wesley May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall 1
Charles Wesley 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales 1
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland 1
Henry Vincent Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud 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
Stratton 0 2
Crownthorne and Minety 0 2
Daglingworth 0 2
Oakley 0 3
Coates 0 2
Baunton 0 2
Siddington 0 2
Preston 0 2
Bagendon 0 2
Duntisbourne Rouse 0 2
Kemble 0 2
Shorncott 7 2
Ampney Crucis 0 2
North Cerney 0 3
Harnhill 0 2
Woodmancote 0 2
Duntisbourne Abbots 0 2
Somerford Keynes 2 2
Sapperton 0 3
Poole Keynes 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CAER CERI William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CAER CORI William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CICESTER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CIRCESTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CIRCITER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CIRENCESTER 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).
CIRENCESTER OR EASTERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CIRENCESTRE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CIRENCHESTER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CIRENCHESTER OR CICESTER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CORINIUM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CORINUM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CYREN CAESTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
DUROCORNOVIUM 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.