Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Brent Knoll, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Brent Knoll in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Week	hamlet	Bartholomew
WEEK, or Wick	a hamlet	Imperial
Wick (or Week)	hamlet	Bartholomew

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brent Knoll like this:

BRENT (South), a village and a parish in Axbridge parish, Somerset. The village stands under BrentKnoll, adjacent to the Bristol and Exeter railway, 3 miles N by E of Highbridge station, and 7½ SW of Axbridge; and has a post office under Weston-super-Mare. -The parish includes also the hamlet of Week. Acres, 3,426. Real property, £10,594. Pop., 905. Houses, 200. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged formerly to the abbots of Glastonbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath an...

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d Wells. Value, £548.* Patron, the Archdeacon of Wells. The church is partly Norman; and contains a large monument to a Somerset of 1663. There are a Bible Christian chapel, a national school, and charities £8.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Brent Knoll by doing a full-text search here.

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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 Brent Knoll 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	Dorset and Somerset	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
East Brent	0	3
Burnham	0	2
Lympsham	0	2
Highbridge	0	2
Berrow	0	2
Bleadon	0	2
Badgworth	0	2
Biddisham	0	1
Huntspill	1	3
Loxton	0	2
Brean	0	2
Bempstone	0	2
Mark	0	3
East Huntspill	0	2
Uphill	0	2
Chapel Allerton	0	2
Christon	0	2
Hutton	0	2
Weare	0	2
Compton Bishop	0	2