Banbury, Oxfordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Banbury hundred Bartholomew
Banbury municipal borough and parish with railway station Bartholomew
BANBURY a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred Imperial
Banbury (or Northern) Division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Calthorpe hamlet Bartholomew
CALTHORPE a hamlet Imperial
Easington hamlet Bartholomew
Hardwick hamlet Bartholomew
HARDWICK a hamlet Imperial
Neithrop township Bartholomew
NEITHROP a township Imperial
South Banbury ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Wickham hamlet Bartholomew

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 Banbury 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.
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham 6
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 5
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 2
Celia Fiennes Berkshire and Oxfordshire 2
Robert Gammage Chelmsford, Oxford and Nottinghamshire 2
Arthur Young 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire 2
Henry Broadhurst In Journeyings Often 1
William Camden Rest of Wales 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
Celia Fiennes Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester 1
Thomas Pennant Coventry 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
Neithrop 0 2
Grimsbury 0 2
Bodicote 0 2
Drayton 0 2
Warkworth 0 2
Hanwell 1 2
Broughton 11 2
North Newington 0 3
Bourton 0 3
Chalcombe 0 3
Middleton Cheney 1 2
Wroxton 1 2
Adderbury 1 2
Bloxham 1 2
Williamscot 0 2
Milton 0 2
Shottswell 0 3
Horley 0 2
Wardington 1 2
Kings Sutton 1 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BAMBURY William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BANBERY Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
BANBURIE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BANBURY 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).
BANBURY OR NORTHERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BANESBYRIG 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.