Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Frome	river	Bartholomew
Frome	hundred	Bartholomew
FROME	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
FROME (The)	a river	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ammerdown Park	park	Bartholomew
KEYFORD	a manor	Imperial
Keyford House	seat	Bartholomew
Woodlands	ecclesiastical district	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 Frome 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.
Henry Vincent	Feb. 26 to 27: Bath and Frome	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	5
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	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
Selwood	3	0
Rodden	0	2
Orchardleigh	0	2
Elm	0	2
Berkley	0	2
Buckland Dinham	0	2
Woodlands	0	1
Lullington	0	2
Whatley	0	2
Marston Bigot	0	2
Nunney	0	2
Chapmanslade	0	2
Standerwick	0	2
Trudoxhill	0	2
Beckington	0	2
Laverton	0	2
Hardington	0	2
Chantry	0	2
Mells	0	2
Longleat	0	2