Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
PORTLAND, or Isle of Portland	a parish	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Easton	village	Bartholomew
EASTON	a village	Imperial
Fortuneswell	village	Bartholomew
FORTUNESWELL	a village	Imperial
Grove Yeats	village	Bartholomew
Mallams	hamlet	Bartholomew
MALLAMS	a hamlet	Imperial
REFORM	a village	Imperial
Wakeham	village	Bartholomew
WAKEHAM	a village	Imperial
Weston	village	Bartholomew
WESTON	a village	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 Portland 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 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	13
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	2
William Camden	Smaller Islands in the British Ocean	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	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 Hist. Gazetteer
Weston	0	2
Easton	0	2
Fortuneswell	0	2
Chesilton	0	2
Wakeham	0	2
Wyke Regis	0	2
Melcombe Regis	5	2
Weymouth	17	2
Chickerell	0	3
Radipole	0	2
Fleet	0	2
Nottington	0	2
Preston	0	2
Broadway	0	2
Buckland Ripers	0	2
Osmington	0	2
Sutton Poyntz	0	2
Culliford Tree	0	2
Langton Herring	0	2
Bincombe	0	2