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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Burford. You may be able to find further references to Burford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Burford | parish, township, and town | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Burford.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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SIGNETT | a hamlet | Imperial |
UPTON | a hamlet | Imperial |
Upton and Signet | township | Bartholomew |
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 Burford 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. |
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William Gilpin | London to Ross | 3 |
William Camden | Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire | 2 |
Arthur Young | 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands | 2 |
William Cobbett | Nov. 9th to 21st, 1821: Gloucester to Berghclere | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset | 1 |
Edwin Russell | Sept. 28 to Oct. 2: Great Risington to Winchcombe | 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 |
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Signet | 0 | 2 |
Upton | 0 | 3 |
Fulbrook | 0 | 2 |
Shilton | 0 | 2 |
Widford | 0 | 2 |
Stonelands | 0 | 2 |
Westwell | 0 | 2 |
Taynton | 0 | 2 |
Holwell | 0 | 2 |
Little Barrington | 1 | 2 |
Swinbrook | 0 | 2 |
Great Barrington | 1 | 3 |
Asthall | 0 | 2 |
Broadwell | 0 | 3 |
Kencot | 0 | 2 |
Milton under Wychwood | 0 | 2 |
Filkins | 0 | 2 |
Brize Norton | 0 | 2 |
Windrush | 3 | 4 |
Alvescot | 0 | 2 |