Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Avebury, or Abury	parish	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 Avebury 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	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	1
William Gilpin	Bristol to London	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
Silbury Hill	1	2
Winterbourne Monkton	0	2
East Kennett	0	2
Yatesbury	1	2
Berwick Bassett	0	2
West Overton	1	5
Cherhill	0	2
Fyfield	0	2
Allington	0	2
Lockeridge	0	1
Winterbourne Bassett	0	2
Alton Barnes	0	2
Preshute	1	2
Selkley	0	2
Clatford	0	2
All Cannings	0	2
Stanton St Bernard	0	2
Alton Priors	1	2
Bourton	0	2
Huish	0	3