Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Somerton	market town and parish	Bartholomew
Somerton	hundred	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Catsgore	hamlet	Bartholomew
CATSGORE	a hamlet	Imperial
Highbrooks	hamlet	Bartholomew
HIGHBROOKS	a hamlet	Imperial
Hurcott	tithing	Bartholomew
HURCOTT	a tything	Imperial
Midney	hamlet	Bartholomew
MIDNEY	a hamlet	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 Somerton 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	2

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
Hurcott	0	2
Long Sutton	0	3
Compton Dundon	0	2
Pitney	0	3
Kingsdon	0	2
Kingweston	0	2
Charlton Mackrell	0	2
Charlton Adam	0	2
Butleigh	0	2
High Ham	0	3
Long Load	0	3
Huish Episcopi	0	2
Northover	0	2
Langport	2	3
Muchelney	1	2
Keinton Mandeville	0	2
Ilchester	6	2
Street	0	2
Barton St David	0	2
Ash	0	2