Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Amesbury	hundred	Bartholomew
AMESBURY	a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, a hundred, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Countess	hamlet	Bartholomew
STONEHENGE	an extraordinary relic of antiquity	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 Amesbury 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	Wiltshire and Hampshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	2
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	2
William Cobbett	Aug. 28th to 30th, 1826: Down the valley of the Avon in Wiltshire	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
Wilsford	0	2
Stonehenge	0	2
Lake	0	2
Durrington	0	2
Bulford	0	2
Durnford	0	2
Underditch	0	2
Figheldean	0	2
Woodford	0	2
Allington	1	2
Idmiston	0	2
Milston	0	2
Porton	0	2
Boscombe	0	2
Cholderton	1	2
Winterbourne Stoke	3	2
Rollestone	0	2
Winterbourne Gunner	0	2
Netheravon	7	4
Newton Toney	14	2