Newbury, Berkshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Newbury municipal borough, market town, and parish Bartholomew
NEWBURY a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
Newbury (or Southern) Division, The parlimentary division 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 Newbury 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 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire 14
William Camden Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex 5
William Cobbett Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire 3
William Gilpin Bristol to London 3
William Cobbett Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Berghcleere 2
William Cobbett Sept. 3rd to 6th, 1823: From Dover to the Wen 2
William Cobbett Aug. 28th to 30th, 1826: Down the valley of the Avon in Wiltshire 2
Celia Fiennes Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey 2
Celia Fiennes Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester 2
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 2
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 2: Hay and Brecheinia 1
William Cobbett Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex 1
William Cobbett Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst 1
Charles Wesley 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales 1
Charles Wesley 1750: Bristol and London 1
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north 1
Charles Wesley Nov. 29 - Dec. 6,1753: London and Bristol 1
Celia Fiennes Marlborough 1
Celia Fiennes Another tour of the Midlands 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 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
Speenhamland 1 2
Sandleford 0 2
Shaw 2 2
Greenham 0 2
Donnington 1 1
Enborne 0 4
Newtown 0 3
Speen 5 2
Stockcross 0 3
Cold Ash 0 2
Faircross 0 2
Thatcham 0 2
Hampstead Marshall 2 1
Woolton Hill 0 3
Highclere 12 2
Winterbourne 0 2
Boxford 0 2
Burghclere 24 2
East Woodhay 1 2
Chieveley 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
NEWBERRY William Gilpin Observations of the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (London: Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1800).
NEWBERY Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
NEWBURIE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
NEWBURY 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).
NEWBURY OR SOUTHERN DIVISION THE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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.