Marlborough, Wiltshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Marlborough municipal borough and market town Bartholomew
MARLBOROUGH a town, two parishes, and a district 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 Marlborough 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.
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire 6
William Camden Wiltshire and Hampshire 4
William Gilpin Bristol to London 4
William Cobbett Aug. 28th to 30th, 1826: Down the valley of the Avon in Wiltshire 3
Charles Wesley Jan. 3 - Aug. 31, 1737: Devon, and around London 3
William Cobbett Aug. 24th to 28th, 1826: Burghclere to Petersfield 2
Celia Fiennes Marlborough 2
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 2
William Cobbett Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Berghcleere 1
William Cobbett Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex 1
William Cobbett Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere 1
Charles Wesley 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 1
Celia Fiennes Wiltshire and Dorset 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
St Margaret 0 2
Furze Cope 0 2
Clatford 0 2
Preshute 1 2
Mildenhall 0 2
Overton Heath 0 2
Clatford Park 0 2
Fyfield 0 2
Lockeridge 0 1
Savernake 2 6
Ogbourne St Andrew 0 2
West Overton 1 5
Leigh Hill 0 2
Selkley 0 2
Wootton Rivers 1 2
Huish 0 3
Ogbourne St George 2 3
Oare 0 2
East Kennett 0 2
Wilcot 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CUNETIO William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MALBRIDGE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MALBROUGH Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
MARLBOROUGH 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).
MARLBRIDGE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MARLBRO Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
MARLBROUGH Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
MARLEBERG John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MARLEBERGE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MARLEBOROW William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
MAULBERY Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).

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.